It's Been an Interesting Day

Apple unleashed both iOS6 and OS X 10.8.2 today.


I don't have a whole lot to say about iOS6. My aging iPhone 4 is unable to take advantage of many of the new features the software is touting. With upgrades like this, I'm just happy if they don't break anything. (Sadly, something I came to expect with Microsoft for the last twenty-plus years.) I'm sure I'll have a more formed opinion of the OS once I replace the phone with the new model.

And as for OS X 10.8.2, it added Facebook integration to the Mac operating system and cleaned up a few stray bugs that were still plaguing some users who upgraded to Mountain Lion last July. Facebook integration—much like Mountain Lion's Twitter integration—is something I'm not likely to use much. It's no secret that I have a love/hate relationship with Facebook, and if I want to waste time there, I'll go onto the website itself. And frankly, there's nothing I need to post there that's so important that it can't wait the additional two seconds it takes to do that.

Like a lot of users, my initial upgrade to Mountain Lion caused a precipitous drop in battery life. I think that was addressed in the .1 update a few weeks ago because yesterday I'd forgotten to plug my laptop into the mains and hadn't realized it until nearly 5 hours later when the low battery level warning popped up. That is at least back to where it was under Lion, so if this .2 update gives me any more time, it's gravy.

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