Where is iOS 6 in Mountain Lion?

[MattInOz]

Well at an API level it would be great to see AutoLayout from Cocoa move to CocoaTouch. AutoLayout is one of the big steps in making Resolution Independence work finally but really just makes it heaps easier to make nice interfaces.

Also we saw the start of Services from OS X in iOS5 with twitter integration. It would good to see this rolled out as a formal API for iOS. Services are third party apps they offer up function to other apps. In ML they introduced the Share Menu which seem to tie in with many services, but in OS X services can do many things.

In iOS they could introduce ShareServices so any app can be part of the share sheet.
More interesting maybe less likely possibilities would be something like:-
Keyboard Services - then you could buy a third party keyboard and use in any app without the app needing to know. So say Wacom could do a hand writing keyboard that works with their pens and any app.

Document Services- Could work with Provide an alternative to iCloud as a backing store to the UIDocument Class. (yes super unlikely).

 

[Sky Blue]

I think the real juiciness of Mountain Lion is yet to be announced. It's unlike Apple to not give a keynote to announce something like this.

i disagree. If you look at Lion DP1, it's 95% what Lion turned out to be. We'll see more refinement in ML, but no new major features.

 

[Peace]

IOS 6.0 will be " shown" at WWDC in June/July probably with a beta for Devs.

It probably won't be released until September. A good 3 months after Mountain Lion is released. Parts of IOS 6 destined to be integrated with 10.8 will probably come out as a point update to 10.8. Perhaps 10.8.3

 

[paolo-]

Other than the notification center, most of the additions that we've seen so far that draw from iOS are from iOS 5 and are much more useful on iPhone/iPad then on the mac.

If Apple would have released Lion (in July) with Reminder, Notes, Message and notification center, they would have let the cat out of the bag as to what was in iOS 5 and on their own, those apps aren't too meaningful on the mac, it's the integration with iOS that makes it worthwhile.

Apple seems to be going for a cycle-like update pattern. Leopard was GUI and new features, Snow Leopard was mainly stability and backend stuff. Lion was GUI and Mountain Lion seems to be some apps and a few rumoured back end stuff. Also, there's just a year between Mountain Lion and Lion, compared to the 2 years cycle we had before.

I hope we can see some refinement in Lion, I'm not ready to update yet. I'm not sure the GUI still needs some work. (Looking at you, Mission Control).

 

[MattInOz]

Apple seems to be going for a cycle-like update pattern. Leopard was GUI and new features, Snow Leopard was mainly stability and backend stuff. Lion was GUI and Mountain Lion seems to be some apps and a few rumoured back end stuff. Also, there's just a year between Mountain Lion and Lion, compared to the 2 years cycle we had before.

We have seen much if anything of the real backend stuff. In terms of long term development of either iOS or OS X that is the interesting stuff.

 

[paolo-]

We have seen much if anything of the real backend stuff. In terms of long term development of either iOS or OS X that is the interesting stuff.

Yeah, it's kind of hard to find out, Snow Leopard was pretty big. It brought full 64-bit support, grand central dispatch to enable multicore CPUs to run efficiently and OpenCL allowing everyday tasks to harness the power of the graphics card.

As far as we know, Mountain Lion will be bringing some kind of way to deal with higher pixel density screens. It seems that they are changing the way OSX will deal with X11.

 

[musika]

So for those have you that haven't noticed, Apple announced Mountain Lion today drawing even MORE from iOS, specifically additions from iOS 5. Like iMessage, reminders, notification center, etc.

So Mountain Lion will be up to par with iOS 5, but when it should be released at approx the same time as iOS 6. Surely, Apple doesn't want to start the tradition of adding things to iOS only to then add them to OS X a year later. There must be some parallel development in play. So I was hoping there would be some large cues to iOS 6 here, but no. The only major feature not already in iOS is gatekeeper, which basically allows the user to decide which apps they are able to DL (MAS or non-MAS). Could that possibly be coming to iOS???

So do you think Mountain Lion will just be a year behind, or do you think when iOS 6 is previewed Apple will show us those additions to mountain lion also?

Maybe iOS 6 will take from OSX features that iOS is missing?

 

[nuckinfutz]

Maybe iOS 6 will take from OSX features that iOS is missing?

Air Drop

 

[DJinTX]

you mean how like the 2nd generation iphone is called iphone 3g

Sorry I have been disconnected for a few days and am just now seeing your reply to me. I didn't quite follow your question. Can you clarify?

 

[Scarrus]

I just want to be clear....The iPhone 5 is already out. I have one in fact. It added Siri, a better camera, and a better processor. Guess you missed it.

This

Why do people still argue about this? Going by their logic then the iPhone 3G would have been the iPhone S, the 3Gs the iPhone sS and the iPhone 4 the iPhone 2... right? Makes sense

 

[Böhme417]

I suspect the big thing in iOS 6 will be the eradication of Google Maps. Apple will likely roll their own Mapping back end based on the Placebase/ Poly9/C3 acquisitions.

iOS 6 will probably be the first OS that has a Siri SDK along with the new Map SDK and finally I'd suspect we see a fantastic Turn by Turn GPS software from Apple that is Siri enabled.

These two features alone (Opening Siri and Mapping/GPS) would sell the next iPhone like gangbusters.

This should have been done a long time ago. Siri is/was not necessary for this. I really miss Google Maps on my Android phone. I don't understand why it's so hard for Apple to turn out a better solution (or even the same). I want turn by turn read directions, and I want it to automatically recalculate the time and route when I miss a turn. It's obviously not that hard. Maps on the iPhone is very in need of some love.

Also, couldn't Apple just have a point release to integrate newer features in OS X introduced with new versions of iOS? 10.8 in the summer and .1 or .2 for iOS feature inclusion in the fall?

 

[mattraehl]

As far as the rich text capabilities of the 10.8 Notes app, the scuttlebut is that Apple will bring this to iOS 5.1, or some future point update in conjunction with the release of ML.

With TextEdit getting the ability to save documents to iCloud, I'd like to see an iOS version of TextEdit in iOS 6. I know there are lots of ways to edit and store text documents in the cloud with iOS 5 right now, but a simple, built-in solution that didn't require additional accounts with other services would be welcome.