New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

How can you be in 2012 and have no google account whatsoever

you don't need a google account i don't think. it asks you to log in to create maps to share, but you can skip that.

i logged in though. does anyone need a gmail invite?

lol

The rub is that year default map app is still Apple's, but WB nonetheless.

xp - I use other providers for email and social networking, don't post youtube comments, and use flickr rather than picasa for photo sharing. Don't feel like I've been living in the dark ages w/o a google account

lol flickr

Apparently you don't actually need to log in to Google, they just make it look like you do.

yeah, you can skip that step

they don't do a very good job of making it look like you need to. it's pretty clear.

Completely missed your post, caek, sorry. I hate being that guy.

fist bump

This is very good.

So is the new Flickr app, btw. Bye, Instagram

ok so might be ready to update to iOS6 now - is the app OK, street view works as before?

brilliantly

it's all slightly different of course, but accounted for

is there a way to orient the map the same way as the iphone?

found that very useful coming out of subway stations, etc.?

i see you can turn the map arbitrarily, but can if figure out which way you've got the phone pointing

got it, ignore me

Ooh, two finger swipe down gives you a 3d view including buildings. And the tube map overlay is really nice too. This is grebt.

Yeah, this is great!

So, should I upgrade my iphone 4 to OS6 now? Only things stopping me are fear of it being slow, and google maps. But will I now have apple maps in citymapper, rather than google ones, even after updating? I've seen talk of a google maps API, but not sure what this will mean in practice.

And, tagging on, should I upgrade a 3G?....

My 3Gs is on iOS 6 and it's about the same speed it was on 5, tbh.

You do have apple maps in citymapper, unfortunately. But the transit directions I tried in the new maps app earlier were spot-on.

Just upgraded and it's stuck a Passbook app on my first screen, can't remember what was in its spot before :/

what are the other good Google iOS apps? I love gmail so much that I put Mail into its own little folder so that I never have to look at it again

WHAAAAAAAAAAT

http://www.zdnet.com/google-maps-returns-to-app-store-turns-up-missing-by-days-end-7000008730/

nm, found it

I don't know if anyone else has been suffering from cripplingly slow apple mail performance but this appears to fix it

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19058957#19058957

Bullshit, I downloaded the Google Maps app for iPad last night and iPhone this morning. I think dude just isn't scrolling past the first page of search results. xp

yeeah, I mean I think I grabbed the iPhone version on my iPad last night. Or maybe I hallucinated that part, not sure.

I searched for Google Maps from my iPhone last night around 12:30 and couldn't find it; this morning it was the third or fourth result

Tried Google Maps - I'm sure the maps themselves are better, but the performance is not as good as the native app, feels a lot choppier. Also, it's way too sensitive with the rotation gesture

works sweet as hell on an iPhone 4s, looks like they're doing some weird not-quite-vector graphics thing still

Have been hearing scattered reports of choppiness, which it definitely isn't on my phones. I wonder if networking's involved. Will go try on shitty 3g and see

on iPhone 5 w/ verizon lte it's super fast

iTunes 11.0.1 is out too. Fixes most of the glaring bugs so far (unless you consider iTunes itself to be one large bug)

Now that I could consider upgrading, is there a consensus as to whether iOS6 slows down iPhones 4?

I upgraded yesterday and my iPhone 4 seems just peachy. No slower than before, as far as I can tell.

Same here on my 4S -- maybe it's my imagination, but a couple things seem to be running a little faster.

Just upgraded and it's stuck a Passbook app on my first screen, can't remember what was in its spot before :/

Yeah, that was weird. I had to shuffle that screen around again and have no idea if I restored it to its previous state.

On my 4S it didn't seem slower

i think the missing app that passbook replaced on the homescreen is youtube

http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/862/05/862_1336681655.png

mr veg got me an iphone 5 for xmas. zoom! weeeeeeeee

it's a lot faster, right? are you on the LTE network?

yep! I only just got the phone activated this morning but yeah, noticeably faster.

mega fast

Just ordered a new work machine, a maxed-out 27" iMac.

I bought a new i7 mac mini as my present to myself. It's so much quicker than my 2008 era iMac.

iphone 5 I love you but I just paid $20 for an extra cable

I love the feel of the oleaphobic screen