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iOS 6 and OS X 10.8.2 Now Available
- ck2 14y agoFinally input type="file" (file uploading) is supported on iPhone/iPad/iTouch devices natively in mobile Safari. About darn time - took how many years?
- masklinn 14y ago2012 - 2007 = 5 About 5?
- nsheridan 14y agoWitchcraft!
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoEven Nintendo got this right, on the 3DS of all things.
- woogley 14y agoIt's less surprising when you consider Opera writes all of the browser software for Nintendo.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoActually, no. Since the 3DS at least, it's ACCESS Software's NetFront NX (WebKit, albeit outdated, not their custom rendering engine).
- wonster 14y agoMuch awaited "feature".
- interg12 14y agoI'm excited to finally have the Yelp! maps integration.
- pkulak 14y agoDon't get too excited... http://dashes.com/anil/2012/09/who-benefits-from-ios6s-crappy-maps.html http://dashes.com/anil/2012/09/who-benefits-from-ios6s-crapp...
- rimantas 14y ago> Apple made this maps change despite its shortcomings > because they put their own priorities for corporate > strategy ahead of user experience. So Anil knows what was going on between Google and Apple (Google license for maps expired this year) to claim this?
- mishmax 14y agoAnyone know when XCode 4.5 will be out?
- jfernandez 14y agoThe GM SDK and accompanying XCode came out the same day as they announced the new device but it was only available through the developer program afaik (i.e. not through App Store).
- rimantas 14y agoIt already is.
- mukaiji 14y agoI checked this morning. It's on the developer website, but still in preview mode.
- quux 14y agoIt's showing up in the Mac App Store now for me.
- maggit 14y agoIs this link US only or something? It only brings me to the unspectacular regular support page: http://i.imgur.com/g6fFz.png http://i.imgur.com/g6fFz.png Is there another, better, link available?
- yottabyte47 14y agoHere's the link to the OS X Update: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5460 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5460 On iOS you can update by going to Settings > General > Software Update OS X users can go to App Store > Updates
- pragone 14y agoI'm in the US and I get the same thing. No update available for me for OS X or for iOS. I'm guessing they do a rolling update...?
- udp 14y agoI'm in the UK and currently downloading the update for both iOS and OS X.
- mgkimsal 14y agoDidn't see any word on battery life fixes in 10.8.2 - any notes on this?
- cstuder 14y agoYes. According to various news outlets, battery life improves significantly with 10.8.2.
- mgkimsal 14y agoThanks. Might we get back to Snow Leopard levels? I'm still on SL, and have been wary of upgrading due to the reported significant battery life drops in Lion, then ML.
- matthew-wegner 14y agoApparently, yes. This test includes 10.6.8 numbers: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-notebook-battery-life-to-os-x-lion-levels/ http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-not...
- JohnBooty 14y agoHere, let me Google that for you. The first Google result was this article, "OS X 10.8.2 Restores Notebook Battery Life to OS X Lion Levels." http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-notebook-battery-life-to-os-x-lion-levels/ http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/10/os-x-10-8-2-restores-not... In the future, if we're not around to look things up for you - give it a try sometime. http://google.com http://google.com
- JohnBooty 14y agoI was downvoted, but not the guy asking easily-Googleable questions. Right. So, I guess it's clear: we want more people asking stuff that can be answered by the first Google search result... by the article title itself. Got it.
- jpxxx 14y agoThe native iOS 6 Maps are just short of wretched. No transit directions, unhelpful default views, a dramatically weaker points of interest database, weaker scrolling performance, and a busier UI that doesn't add anything of great use. It's a rather big turd in an otherwise delicious punchbowl, and it is going to become a real-world talking point about iPhones starting today.
- randomdata 14y agoI shared many of those concerns from the previews given by Apple. That is until I actually tried using it, at which point I have deemed it much better than the Google-backed version. With that said, I think your location matters: Transit directions are not something I can use anyway, for instance.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI saw someone tweet (and someone I follow retweet) this: "Nine years ago Safari was released: a fringe browser that didn't run sites for IE well. Today, its engine powers everything. Now think maps." I laughed and then felt really, really bad for them. It's unbelievable the way people react to criticism. (in any cases, not just Apple/iPhone)
- jpxxx 14y agoTrojankitten is extraordinarily astute and her opinion is not to be dismissed as partisanship. She is correct in that Maps are a fundamental and incredibly important platform service that will only become moreso over time. Doesn't change how much they suck today, though.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI have no idea who this person is other than guessing she is a female from her profile picture. It's also not the first tweet I've found to be completely off-base and ironically, the second today. The tweet about intro/extrovertedness is just flatly wrong. I have no reason to take her tweet as anything but what it is. In context with her other tweets, I feel pretty damn safe in calling it at least a bit partisan. A quick scan of the first above-the fold tweets shows another conversation that is blatantly intentionally down-playing the badness of the iOS6 maps. edit: I mean, I haven no stake in this, as I've said I have no idea who this person is, but you can't read through that feed and tell me with an honest tone that it's not biased. It's blatantly pro-Apple tweet, anti-Google tweet, ambiguous tweet about Microsoft competing with Google. Repeat. edit2: I've devolved into an off-topic rant about some random Twitter account. I apologize. I'll merely conclude that likening iOS6 Maps to Safari (and really WebKit) as a response to how bad Maps is... is pretty desperate in my opinion.
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- dfc 14y agoI am not an iPhone user. Can someone explain "Do Not Disturb"? I think I am missing something, I thought that was what the switch was on the side of the old iphones?
- high5ths 14y agoThe switch on the side of the phone was just a "silencer," without any fine-grained control. "Do Not Disturb" is a more intelligent kind of silencer -- it silences emails, texts, and any sort of app notifications, but you can let it selectively allow phone calls through (either "Everybody," "All my contacts," or just your "Favorites"), and it has a feature to allow repeated calls through (if someone calls you, then calls back a couple minutes later). My iPhone is my only phone, so I want it to ring whenever somebody calls me, but I don't want my phone beeping with emails and texts all night. Previously, the only way to accomplish this would have been either to set all sounds except the ringtone to "Silent" (manually changing every sound) or to leave all sounds happening, but plug in a pair of headphones at night (which makes all notification sounds except the ringtone go through the headphones). I've been doing this for months, but it's obviously a pain. "Do Not Disturb" is the solution I've been looking for.
- dfc 14y agoWhenever I think it is finally time to ditch my Blackberry and get an android/iphone I see something like this and it makes me change my mind. I would really enjoy a lot of the features that the iphone/android have but for the most part I really only use my phone for calls, emails and light web surfing. Please tell me that Android has a similar feature?
- jh3 14y agoThe DND feature silently declines alerts and calls when enabled. I haven't used it yet, but I am assuming the alerts and calls that have been declined due to DND mode will be available whenever you turn it off/check the notification center. You can also schedule DND mode to go on and turn off at certain times. You can whitelist contacts, too. There is also an option to allow calls through that happen in rapid succession (something like >1 of the same call in >=3m).
- dmix 14y agoChangelog for OSX 10.8.2 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5460 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5460 Looks like iMessages finally supports messages sent to iPhone.
- RKearney 14y agoIt always did. However, now it supports messages sent to your phone number in addition to email addresses.
- CWIZO 14y agoStill no update for wi-fi on macbooks and crazy fans on Airs :/ OK the fans are a little bit more sane now since the last update, but still no in the tolerable range. And the wi-fi seems, at least to me, to have gotten worse with the last update. I'll update and see if it is fixed and they just didn't bother to mention it in the announcement.
- Alex3917 14y agoFor those wondering, this update seems to run just fine on 3GS. The new maps app works smoothly, and Safari loads pages either the same or else just slightly faster than before. (Similar results not guaranteed.)
- artmageddon 14y agoI updated my 3GS to use iOS5 when it came out, and my phone has been horrendously slow. Even just scrolling from the home screen to the search bar(all the way to the left) would result in a 10-second delay, and sometimes the whole phone seems to stall when I click a text field to bring up the keyboard. Did anyone else have a similar experience? Is it better on iOS6?
- mrknmc 14y agoWe are now finally able to set a song as an alarm ringtone!
- philwelch 14y agoThat's a bit of an antifeature. You grow to loathe the song you set as your alarm ringtone.
- stuross 14y agoUpdating to 10.8.2 has broken virtualbox for me. The error I'm getting is: "VT-x is being used by another hypervisor". I'd be careful updating if you use virtualbox for development.
- maggit 14y agoI see the same thing. I tried reinstalling/updating to the latest version of VirtualBox, but it did not help. Update: I managed to disable VT-x by following the procedure described at http://tech.techteam.gr/virtualbox-vt-x-problem-cannot-disable-and-virtual-machine-not-starting-here-is-how-to-fix/690/ http://tech.techteam.gr/virtualbox-vt-x-problem-cannot-disab... and starting the virutal machine with VBoxHeadless. However, this immediately made my host machine completely lock up, so I cannot recommend it :)
- stuross 14y agoI was told in virtualboxes's irc to check back tomorrow for an update. apparently the devs aren't around right now.
- slith 14y agohave you tried updating VirtualBox to 4.2? this seems to have fixed the problems with the 10.8.2 update.
- stuross 14y agono luck. Seems like the problem occurs only for newer macbooks. https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51331&start=30 https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=51331&...
- slith 14y agoIm on a iMac late 2010. So yes, the issue is with Macbooks and Macbook Air.
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- sirn 14y agoOS X 10.8.2: Adds an option to discard the changes in the original document when choosing Save As Glad to see Apple finally address this issue! Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4339609 Edit: the problem with color profile on SSD drive with FileVault enabled[1] seems fixed also. [1]: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1401741 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1401741
- nachteilig 14y agoGoogle, if you're reading this: _Please_ release your maps app for iOS. I can't upgrade to iOS 6 until you do, and switching to Android isn't an option!
- endlessvoid94 14y agoHow might I upgrade from iOS 6 beta to iOS 6 release? My phone says "up to date", even though I'm positive it isn't.
- jevinskie 14y agoI don't think the betas let you do OTA upgrades. You have to jump into Xcode or iTunes to get the released iOS 6. Of course the GM really is what was release today so no need to update if you're running that.
- circa 14y agomaps.google.com and saved to home screen works pretty well. its almost like the old maps app.
- X-Istence 14y ago"Adds an option to discard the changes in the original document when choosing Save As" Well, that solves one problem that everyone here on HN was complaining about.
- lectrick 14y ago1) Go to maps.google.com in Safari on your iPhone or iPad 2) Hit Yes when it wants to know your location 3) Hit Yes when it pesters you to add it as an icon (for once, it's not bothering me). The icon is snazzy. 4) Enjoy your almost-as-good-as-the-app-was mobile Google Maps experience. Complete with transit directions.