I disagree. I wasn't a Microsoft fan when I switched to Windows Phone in late 2012 (hated Windows XP, skipped Vista, was forced to use 7). But the somewhat denser UI allowed me to break out of the tap in, tap in, tap in, back, back, back cycle that I was seemingly stuck in on iOS.

Plus I liked the tiles: resizable, repositionable, and they contained information.

Thank you. I did not know about this. Makes tablet mode usable with Firefox.

Sounds like a hardware problem. Have you tried getting it fixed?

Why would you even bother reinstalling the OS multiple times to fix the WiFi connection? Life is too short.

Ask your doctor if $name_brand_drug is right for you!

why not? It seems quite novel. Might end up with a different form of reading entertainment.

My phone has locally stored maps. At least for the places I am in. But I agree the GPS could be a bit faster. Or I guess I could drive a bit slower.

Beware what model year your 27" iMac is. anything mid-2011 and later only supports input from Thunderbolt originated signals. Found out the hard way with my mini-displayport enabled device.

Ah. That's interesting. Hood sitting is not a primary use case. Carrying a mobile phone is.

You must be short. Any discussion with said Air Marshall would quickly and visually indicate that there is no room between your seatback and my knee in any position. Short legged people just don't understand that.

What makes you say that?

I don't follow your reasoning. Unlocking is orthogonal to the 2 year contract. If you unlock a phone, yes, you can move to a different carrier but you are still responsible for the contract.

I'll bite, I searched for ios virus on Google and Bing. Same results. Nothing really current (something from the ios 4 days) other than the malware infecting charger. So if you have citations, I would love to see them.

Tell me about it! And the TI-57 manual Making Tracks into Programming was phenomenal.

I just wish I knew about the constant memory trick with the infinite loop blanking the display back then. Where *was* the internet!

Doesn't the "Command" key behave like the "Windows" key when you are running on a mac in some sort of windows mode (VM, bootcamp)?

Eh, in Maps 6, some things are nicer, some not.

The turn by turn may be better because it actually exists in iOS6 but the routing that the turn by turn uses is not better. This is anecdotal but it chooses a route from my house to a given destination which requires a 140 degree left turn (with no stoplights). While not illegal, it is dangerous. Other routing choices seem almost random (again, anecdotal, but I did two routes from two locations that where separated on a given rural road by about 10 miles and it gave me two different river crossings to take when the road to the river crossings was common for about 40 miles for both routes).

Another minor downgrade is the missing bookmarks option. A personal rant, 3D mode is too easy to enable (via button or two fingered swipe).

Maps 6 does do a beautiful job of animating the street names in and out appropriate to the zoom level and hence keeps them legible more often.

And I miss Street View but that's mostly from virtually visiting places, not really navigating.