You are correct, but I think that here the main point is the decrease in the quality of the ios. Android is only mentioned because at this point in time it is the only real alternative.

You’re right. personally I can’t resist. Apple fans just come across odd to say the least.
Look at the point below. you only buy android cos u can’t afford an iphone. Cmon all current phone are free with ?40 per Mon contact ..
..give me a break.

Best comment ever! :)

Someone give this guy a medal!

you wish you had third world ones.?

We do have thirld world ones…look at the HSE waiting lists, the dependency on the IMF, etc.

You’re right never thought of that!

Android navigation app already does this and has done for several years.

Won’t be updating either as too many updates apply only to iPhone 4s and 5.
I just cannott get over apples arrogance to offer us what they want us to purchase.
I have been with Apple from the start but decided a few days ago to venture into android land.
Android is far more flexible. It gives you so many options.
And the Samsung Galaxy is amazing in every way.
It’s goodbye Apple until they sort themselves out.

Note: the iPhone/iPad You Tube app is very slow.
Instead try accessing You Tube through Safari. http://www.youtube.com

You mean a YouTube app for iPad?

Just go to Youtube on Safari . It now looks the same as the old App which I never used.

When did they tell you what apps to or not to use??? Apples agreement with google maps expired and they developed their own maps app. If google want to develop a third party app it’s up to them. Typical android user comment. Inferior hardware and software but you’ll convince yourself apple is evil because you don’t want to pay a bit more for better quality. At the end of the day the iPhone is an incredible piece of technology and built to a standard not seen before with personal electronics that’s in turn forced other manufacturers to step their products quality up a notch but still lag behind apple. Android is a copy of apple OS as none of them existed before 2007’s iPhone launch. I only ever see android users slating the iPhone in these comment threads but never the other way round. I guess iPhone users aren’t jealous enough to do so.

O – M – frickin G!!!! I urge you to go back over that comment there ‘I shit you not’. You completely contradict what you were trying to say to the point of embarrassment. And android copying iOS, sure they did….. Initially…. Before they overtook them n left them behind!! I have an iPhone but will fully acknowledge that android is way better. It’s actually Apple fanboys like yourself that turn a lot of people off buying an Apple product for fear of one day sounding like that!!!!
Good Day. :)

@Olwyn that’s comment of the week. All that you said is so true plus what gets me is when apple act that a feature didn’t exist until it is on the iphone. Take “facetime” for example, a piece of crap LG phone I had, had it 2 years before the iphone!
As for the apple build quality, the first thing any person does is stick a big dirty cover & screen protector on it. It could be made from melted tayto packets and you couldn’t tell.
I guess apple fans like the shiny, shiny box…..

I do shit you not.
As much as I love my iPhone the recent iOS upgrade has seriously affected the experience. To take what can be considered the best in class map app and replace it with the best in class comedy app is a retrograde step for apple. Also removing YouTube as an app for iPad is infuriating. How can this be considered in the best interest of the consumer. Apples arrogance has trumped any loyalty to its immense customer base. Frankly your point, well misses the point.

Why do people think apple removed YouTube because they thought it was in the best interest of whoever. YouTube paid to be included in the iOS before. They don’t now so they don’t get automatically put on the home screen!! Should apple include someone else’s app for free??? You can just download it like every other app. As for how different it is..that’s up to YouTube how their app functions.

Another point of interest if you decide to update to iOs 6.
It will take up approx. 2.5 Gb of space.
As far as most iPhones are concerned this is a major chunk of your memory used up.

@ Damian. Yes, you’re completely right. FaceTime, Siri, turn by turn navigation….. It’s been done quite a long time before Apple picked up on it. But who would we be to go up against the bling brigade. They’ll never get it. Personally, I’m holding out to see the Sony Mint before I go for the S3.

Shit you not you are by far the most blinded commentator here. All we are pointing out is that apple have reduced the features on the phone. Google maps is an incredibly handy bit of kit. Remember it’s been lurking on your iPhone for years. I’m not interested in arguing about the merits of an android equipped phone. It’s the end user experience that counts and that has been affected negatively. Not that you care as you fiddle with with your bits.

@shityounot Sorry to burst your little fanboi bubble but the android os actually predates ios by a couple of years.
also you do realise that your superior hardware in your iphone is manufactured by samsung who use it in their own smartphones first months before letting apple near it.
I prefer android for lots of reasons but i dont look down my nose at people who choose apple (having a choice is great), unless like you they are ill-informed, fanboi morons who insist on spouting crap when really they havent a clue what theyre talking about.

” Typical android user comment. Inferior hardware and software but you’ll convince yourself apple is evil because you don’t want to pay a bit more for better quality. ”

Classic!

You do realise this article only exists because iPhone’s mapping tool is inferior to Google’s?

Safari is now super fast on my ipad now after updating to ios6. V happy with it.

Maps are deinitely a disaster but the new You Tube is much better than the old one.

I’ll bet she could only use a nokia before hand too? The times they are a changin.

Why would being open source make something bad?

Firefox is open source and it revolutionised the internet. In fact, most of the internet runs on Linux servers running Apache, both of which are open source.

I just don’t understand where people get the idea that open = bad and proprietary = good.

oookaaaay……

we?

Apple are not original designers. The only original thing they have produced is a flawless marketing campaign that convinces people that they are original designers.

It is your option to fund their r&d…if it does not improve many will jump over to Android.

People are making such a big deal about nothing. If google maps is your gripe on iOS then browse to maps.google.ie and save the maps icon to your phone. This will give you google maps on your phone. You always required web access with the old maps app. You loose street view but it was always a nice to have anyway. How many times did you seriously use it. If you are truly in need of a navigation map app go and buy a Tom Tom or another. The maps app was always Apples they got the data service from google so had every right to select a different data supplier.

You can do the same as the above with you tube. I used both if these apps frequently on previous iOS version and I really haven’t lost any sleep about the new version.

I have nothing against android I think it’s a great OS but people need to realise it doesn’t come fault free – it’s as buggy as any OS out there. It has taken google many many iterations to get their maps correct. Nothing works perfectly in version 1. Google apps for business has now been out there for about 6 years – bar gmail it’s still crap. So get over these small things its not as if you cannot leave the house without a maps app!

David: it’s terrible that you have to defend removal of features that some people did actually rely on. ‘sure that was just nice to have’, why should you have to accept that it was removed?

Niall while I agree with you that Apple are innovative, the main focus here is on maps. When a user gets notified about an update on their iPhone then I think they are expecting to see improvements after applying said update? The new maps app are a disappointing step backwards. The maps contain many inaccuracies, satellite imaging is less sharp/detailed vis a vis Google Maps. There’s no Street View and there’s unlikely to be anytime soon. The new 3D option is a nice gimmick but doesn’t really do much for me. These maps were not ready for prime time but they shipped anyway. This type of corner cutting is surely the antithesis of what the Apple brand stands for in the minds of most consumers? Who knows what Steve Jobs would say about this? Maybe he’d be apologetic or maybe he’d apply his “reality distortion field” to tell us “it’s not the map, you just want to go to the wrong place!”

I mean ‘there” ….wish there was an edit or delete function!