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well I think it would def depend on how many cycles the battery's been through, whether the previous owner left it plugged in all the time, etc. I think the app coconut battery app tells you this info?

http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro/service/battery/

any passes for passbook available yet?

Can it even be installed yet? I open it and it gives me a dead App Store link

Ditto.

ios6 = 791MB

we're gonna be here for a while

Installed

Bluetooth on-off toggle is now not so buried, so much better.

Took about four tries to load iPod/music without crashing.

Flying Delta tomorrow evening I wonder if passbook will work tomorrow.

assuming they haven't fixed the password visibility issue? still blows my mind that on a presentation device like the ipad your password is displayed character by character. because I want everyone in the room to know what my password is.

10.8.2 has sorted the wifi timeout issue.

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god

10.8.2 >>>>> iOS 6

stet, ios6 + uk + maps. should i upgrade?

will firmware update fix the screen tearing i keep experiencing on safari?

Do you mean when scrolling pages fast?

iOS 6 installed without a hitch. Too bad many of its best new features won't work on my iPod touch 4.

I was wondering what all the carping about the new maps was about. The previews I saw on tech sites looked amazing. Then I found out why - check out this page. That fancy photographic 3D flyover building and street rendering only works in the US, and only in certain cities at that. The rest of the country, and the world, gets ugly featureless mockups instead. I trust Google is working 24/7 on an iOS mass-transit map, as well as Street View.

xp yes

but also when an app like facebook tries to update something at the same time i'm typing something fast i get weird jumping around blocks of screen

oh and forgot to mention, even Americans living in those select cities won't see the 3D renderings on older devices, like mine.

I just want public transit directions.

for 1000 dollars you can get a refurb macbook pro i5 that's still a plenty useful computer.

― dan selzer, Tuesday, September 18, 2012 11:07 PM

yeah... I'm thinking a 2 or 3 year old machine that costs less than $650. i'll figure it out...

Most of the major transit systems have their own apps already, but now they'll need to integrate them with iOS maps

it has turn by turn no thats an improvement

yeah, I used turn by turn with siri on my ipad 3 on the way home from work, no issues. looks like a regular GPS now. could give an f about 3d flyover, just get me from here to there.

Caek: if you use maps totally no. It's hilariously bad. Half the tube stations aren't even on there. It is near-totally useless in London because what locations it does know about are in the wrong places. In Edinburgh some buildings are in the roads.

(The driving directions also seem shit, because it isn't distinguishing A and B roads properly)

Google maps works better for CTA directions than any other app. They just need to go ahead and release a standalone app. If apple would even allow it.

apple maps is so bad, but even worse its also SO UGLY, all apples shit has been so ugly lately, cmon guys

it really has

I've not seen it yet but I fully expect it to unfold a virtual skeuomorphic paper map every time you open it

point to point directions look pretty cool though

http://treehouseparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/pirate_map.jpg

design award 2012

lol I didn't think I'd care but maps is surprisingly ugly

I think I'm not going to upgrade my iPhone 4 to iO6. It sounds like you need to at least have a 4S for it to be worth it. Plus I can keep the google version of maps, which I definitely use a lot.

Did the upgrade just to see if in fact it would take on my 3Gs as promised and lo and behold. Will see how it all goes for the rest of the month before making a final upgrade decision but I'll likely just go for a 4Gs.

my iphone 4 is not seeing the update for some reason

I mean I don't *care*, just curious as to why that would happen

i just updated and ... not sure whats different except for maps

the Maps thing will probably keep me from updating iOS6 - tho I feel a bit weird getting off the bandwagon

thanks stet

fwiw in my area the maps thing looks pretty cool

it does look cool, that's the frustrating thing -- it's much better-drawn and swishier than the old Maps. But then you look for your bus stop and find it's in the middle of a river. North of Aberdeen.

My home town doesn't even exist.

my iphone 4 is not seeing the update for some reason

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works on wi-fi, maybe big updates don't even appear over cell

I imagine the maps will be a trainwreck once I actually have to use them, so I totally see why people are pissed off that actual basic functionality is missing, but I'm surprised at people saying it's uglier. Like, google maps tiles are never going to win any beauty prizes. They look ok because of ubiquity but compared to any real A to Z they are fugly.

(Again though, they do have the advantage of having the right things in the right places which is the important thing, so I'm not sticking up for apple!)

PS hard to tell because updates always make the phone feel more responsive for the first couple of days, but so far new OS feels fine on 3gs. Apart from map trepidation and podcasts getting moved out of the music app, I'm happy enough.

the A-Z app pwns, so glad i have never had to use Maps or now this new thing

A search for Manchester United Football Club directs users to Sale United Football Club, a community team for ages five and above.

lol

the maps themselves look okay but the map text is really terrible

also as far as i know im the only person who uses itunes match but it ruins some pretty basic match functionality. so if you use itunes match and public transpo, walking directions or streetview i suggest you do not upgrade. otherwise its decent

what about itunes match does it ruin?