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Lion, iOS, iCloud. Who's excited? Biggest Surprises/Disappointments?

Just curious to see how everybody was feeling post WWDC keynote.


Here are my thoughts:

Lion:
- No real surprises here besides the price, right? Sign me up!

iOS 5:
- I was expecting the notifications update to iOS 5 but was pleasantly surprised to see them do something more useful with the lock screen.
- The biggest surprise for me was the physical button option for the camera. Never thought Apple would give up that fight.
- Wireless activation/syncing is huge
- I don't use voice lots, but do find it useful in Android when driving. Not convinced we won't hear more about this before the new hardware is released in the fall.

iCloud:
- Honestly, there's more here than I expected. Seems like the most annoying aspects of syncing are simply going to be non issues by this fall.
- iTunes Match is better than I could have expected. $24.99 is an incredibly good price for the features they're describing. Some will be disappointed that there's no streaming option, but I think we all know that this will come in time. Can movies be that far behind.

All in all, an exciting day?

What did you think?

Anybody else joining the dev program just to play with iOS 5 (bugs and all) a few months early?

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waynerod

Its gonna be awesome! Can't wait for it to release.

I'll stay away from the developer program for now. I might join next year anyway, since I'm planning on doing a course on iOS development in University.
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Blackice273

I'm disappointed of the new ios5
I wished that i have homescrean with widgets for IPad at least like nice clock , one for Facebook and twitter maybe like the HTC ,and other Androids tablets...
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lirand

iOS 5 is superb. I've had high expectation and I wasn't disappointed.
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