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Comment by ashazar | Hacker News Reader

Just a wasted 1 year... Not much of an improvement since iOS 5. Maps (with turn-by-turn navigation) and offline reading seems nice, but nothing else.

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But they've added a lot of new developer APIs, which is the loveliest part. But as an avid iOS user, I call my beloved platform semi-broken until it gets a decent inter-app communication channel (something better than documents in the cloud). I'm disappointed that I have to wait for at least iOS 7 for that...

Yes, you are right about the new APIs. Since i'm not an iOS developer, i was looking from the eye of an end-user.

"I'm disappointed that I have to wait for at least iOS 7 for that..." Couldn't agree more.

iOS is a mature platform at this point. Apple doesn't usually shuffle things around or make huge changes just to say they did it. It has to fix a specific problem or add enough functionality to justify increasing complexity. Some significant changes weren't really covered in detail (App Store redesign) so likely there will be more to come on iOS6 when the 6th generation iPhone is released. (or just read the rumor sites later today to get all the little details)

I think Passbook is actually the star of this upgrade. My phone noticing I walked into a Starbucks and giving me a quick shortcut to bring up that barcode? Brilliant!

You have no idea how much of an advertiser wet dream this capability is.

When I worked for Yell/Yellowbook, one of the most common requests was for anything that we could develop that could "Allow a shop to know when you were walking by, and offer deals and enticements to get you either into the shop fully or to push you towards the items that they most want to sell to you.".

This never didn't horrify me. May be good for them, but terrible for consumers.

If Apple have managed to package the functionality such that consumers are excited by it then it is a gold mine for Apple.

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