Comments on: iOS 5’s Biggest Miss

By: Dimwit

Dimwit — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:12:15 +0000

The only reason left (to me anyway) for jailbreaking is SBSettings. If Apple would give me a way to set up a shortcut to my Bluetooth toggle, or any other setting I choose, there would be no reason for ME to jailbreak. I’m thinking like the way we can add links to web pages to our homescreens.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:00:09 +0000

The app I would miss the most is biteSMS. I think apple should have included a quick reply and quick compose in ios5, to me this is the one major thing missing.

By: Damien Benoit

Damien Benoit — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:21:05 +0000

Sounds king of bitchy seeing that they are doing just what you seem to want. They said there are widgets. Just cause you see those 2 doesn’t mean calendar isn’t coming. Matter of fact I can bet 100% that it will by the time 5.0 is out. Widgets, means widgets… not JUST WHAT YOU SEE. Its open and more can be created. Happy now?

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:26:25 +0000

@Steve – I’ve been running JB on and off (90% on) since the first iPhone. I used to use Intelliscreen – no particular reason why I switched to LockInfo but either way, this has remained the biggest need in iOS for me. I’d love an SBSettings plugin for Notification Center, but I can live without it.

As for the 200+ other things they didn’t talk about in the keynote – unfortunately this wasn’t part of it. Sure there’s months to go – hopefully Apple will include this. But if nobody talks about it – Apple isn’t going to put any effort towards it.

For a lot of us – our smartphone isn’t just an extension of our Wii/Xbox/PSP and this type of feature is something we’ve used since the early days of Windows Mobile (CE).

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:41:39 +0000

I thought you only went back to jailbreaking relatively recently so it can’t have been that bad without.
I love jailbreaking, and always used lockinfo, but I also love this iOS5 beta. Lots of inbuilt system wide extras that’ll make legit apps like textexpander and jailbreak apps like wifi sync obsolete.
As Mark said, it’s an early beta so lets wait and see.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:29:51 +0000

I recently unjailbroke my phone. The two things I miss most that won’t really be covered by iOS 5 are sbsettings and bitesms. Especially sbsettings. I really hope that Apple adds some kind of quick controls for settings before it ships. The OS badly needs it.

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 20:14:41 +0000

WWDC was just a preview
There’s over 200 new features to come
Alot they did not cover, or show.

And we are only on the first beta,
We could very well get calendar support in notification center.
Might not be ready at the moment?

I’m going to wait till the gold master,
Before I start getting upset.
Alot can very well change between now and then

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:40:09 +0000

Keep in mind it’s still the first beta. A lot can change in 3 months.

By: JNGold

JNGold — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:29:47 +0000

I am done with Jailbreaking even though I loved apps like LockInfo and sbsettings. It got to the point where I wanted the latest and greatest from Apple and would lose using my Jb apps until a tethered jailbreak was offered. As time has gone on, I have seen the availability of jailbreaks come at longer and longer clip after an OS release most likely due to Apple closing many of the vulnerabilities used by jailbreakers.