thoughts on iOS 5?

Here's a couple of engadget articles summarizing:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/06/06/apples-ios-5-all-the-details/
http://www.engadget.com/wwdc-2011/apple-ios-5-hands-on-preview/

They've added android-esque notifications, iCloud (which you can't stream music with..), and a lot of other features that it probably should've already had anyway. The best feature imo is that you can now take a picture with the volume button 

I don't have a "Yawn" smiley face to respond to what I think about iOS5.

It's hilarious.. OTA updates? Really?!?!

I actually laughed out loud when I saw the pull-down notification system.... and again when I saw the iBBM er-... I mean "iMessage".

It's hilarious how often sues other companies for having ideas even slightly resembling something they kind of have.... then they go and release something so identical to the competition.

They're trying to sue Samsung for TouchWiz looking so similar to iOS (honestly, I agree it does and I think it's stupid of Samsung because iOS is so ugly). then they copy all these other features and try to play it off as some brilliant to innovation that only they thought of.


I thought that was great too. Like.... seriously? I took them this long to catch on to that concept?

Like I've been saying, if you want to know what "new" features will be available on the iPhone in three years just look at what new features have been released on Android (and certain other platforms) this year.