I begin by asking why Apple would roll out an OS so late after it was announced and why everyone is so damn excited. The recent keynote, showed Apple sink to new lows, as they desperately label all features of the new OS has 'revolutionary' in a bid to successfully generate applaud from the audience who consist of desperate reporters and Apple fanatics, who clapped eagerly at every moment. Unfortunately the truth is that a majority of the features introduced weren't 'revolutionary' but either a lift from Google's Android or the jailbreak community.
After Amazon and Google had rolled out their cloud services months ago it was inevitable that Apple would join the market, WWDC saw Apple's take on cloud service, the ingeniously titled, iCloud. This didn't really bother me, considering Apple fanatics have already admitted that Apple 'makes existing ideas better,' so I dismissed it, until they started to announce the new features of iOS 5. Notification centre - a clear rip off of the android blind angered me, as the thousand person audience clapped with excitement.
WifiSync is another thing that is unoriginal, Apple got the idea (or even the software) from Greg Hughes who has trying to get his WifiSync in the app store, quite a while ago.
iMessage, a way i0s5 users can send other people text, photos and videos over wifi. This is apple's version of Blackberry messenger, this is probably the only feature in i0S 5 I could see myself using.
Reminders: "A better way to do to-dos."
When I firstly found about this I was really disappointed in Apple. As their are very similar apps to this in the app store. I feel sorry for the developers who have similar apps on the App store, at least the remaining i0S devices not receiving the update have an alternative.
Application short-cut on the lock screen this being the camera. Now the new HTC sensation had been reased before te keynote and that includes application short cuts on the lock screen as well. I'm not really sure I should include this, as it's not really copying.
I believe all of the above and more make the new i0S unoriginal and unappealing.
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