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The Macalope Weekly: Reactionaries

16.06.2012
The actions of Apple sure can provoke some people to fabulous flights of fancy. The iOS 6 announcements this week, for example, have one ZDNet pundit spotting Android a few yards, while a CNet pundit lets his imagination run away with him. Unfortunately, not so far that we can't hear him. Finally, what's Microsoft reacting to? Hard to tell.

ZDNet's Matthew Miller has seen the future of iOS and--are you sitting down?--he's not all that impressed.

It looks like Apple's days of blowing people away with new features and functions has cooled now that solid platforms like Ice Cream Sandwich and Windows Phone exist.

Yes, Apple merely reinvented the smartphone five years ago, setting the standard by which others are still judged. But what has it done for you lately?