inothernews: In which Apple’s CEO says “hey, sorry about our crappy maps, but don’t worry, you can use GOOGLE’s in the meantime, LOL!” This is not an article from the Onion, and Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave, etc. FWIW, I have no intention of upgrading to iOS6 until a new Google Maps app is available.  I’ll keep rockin’ on iOS5 until then. - Waterman12053
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In which Apple’s CEO says “hey, sorry about our crappy maps, but don’t worry, you can use GOOGLE’s in the meantime, LOL!”

This is not an article from the Onion, and Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave, etc.

FWIW, I have no intention of upgrading to iOS6 until a new Google Maps app is available.  I’ll keep rockin’ on iOS5 until then. - Waterman12053

There is no technical reason why one data plan should be able to access FaceTime and another not.
Public Knowledge lawyer John Bergmayer • Discussing a controversial letter written by AT&T describing why the company plans to charge more to allow the usage of the iOS app FaceTime on its network, forcing consumers to switch to the company’s new Mobile Share plans to use the service. Their reasoning? “The FCC’s net neutrality rules do not regulate the availability to customers of applications that are preloaded on phones,” the company’s Bob Quinn writes. The decision may violate the FCC’s neutrality rules, though the FCC hasn’t responded on the matter. Hey Apple: Consider taking the app out of iOS6 and instead putting it prominently on the App Store, just to screw AT&T over.

(via shortformblog)

Requiem for an Ipad1 By now you’ve probably heard about iOS 6, the much anticipated and now 100-percent real mega-update to Apple’s mobile platform. It’s the system at the heart of your iPods, iPhone and iPads. Happy owners of these pocketable and carry-worthy devices are queuing up to get their update fix; to marvel in the Google Maps replacement and taste the sweet nectar of complete Facebook integration. To revel in real-time photo stream sharing and thank heavens for mobile phones’ first digital Do Not Disturb sign. Everyone is lining up, except me. I’m an iPad 1 owner (also known as “first-gen iPad,” “Original iPad” and the rarely used “iPad Classic”) and have just learned, thanks to an exhaustive presentation by Scott Forstall at WWDC in San Francisco, that my precious table is ineligible for this iOS upgrade. The iOS upgrade train will leave the station without this passenger. There’s not only no room on board, Apple didn’t even build me a seat. I find it odd that the Iphone 3Gs, which was released a year BEFORE the Ipad1 WILL be able to operate under iOS6.  Not sure what the thinking was behind that pretzel logic.  - Waterman12053
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Requiem for an Ipad1

By now you’ve probably heard about iOS 6, the much anticipated and now 100-percent real mega-update to Apple’s mobile platform. It’s the system at the heart of your iPods, iPhone and iPads. Happy owners of these pocketable and carry-worthy devices are queuing up to get their update fix; to marvel in the Google Maps replacement and taste the sweet nectar of complete Facebook integration. To revel in real-time photo stream sharing and thank heavens for mobile phones’ first digital Do Not Disturb sign.

Everyone is lining up, except me.

I’m an iPad 1 owner (also known as “first-gen iPad,” “Original iPad” and the rarely used “iPad Classic”) and have just learned, thanks to an exhaustive presentation by Scott Forstall at WWDC in San Francisco, that my precious table is ineligible for this iOS upgrade. The iOS upgrade train will leave the station without this passenger. There’s not only no room on board, Apple didn’t even build me a seat.

I find it odd that the Iphone 3Gs, which was released a year BEFORE the Ipad1 WILL be able to operate under iOS6.  Not sure what the thinking was behind that pretzel logic.  - Waterman12053