As most of you will know by now, Apple iOS 5 becomes available for download later today after a beta test period of approximately 4 months.
As Collaboration Matters is a member of the Apple developer program, we’ve been running iOS5 previews on a mixture of iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches since June.
It’s fair to say that I’m a fan, a big fan.
In particular, notifications is a massive step forward.
I know, I know, Android has had a similar feature for a while now (but then I could list thousands of features that Android has ripped from iOS, but I digress!). However, the Notification Center in iOS 5 is really well implemented and very customisable – if there was one feature of the new release that I could not give up, it would be notifications.
Otherwise, I think that the over-the-air updates, backups and restores is a very big deal. Again, other platforms have had it for a while, but iOS again implements it in a good way. The biggest step forward here is that any new products purchased will be usable straight from the store, no need to plug into iTunes to activate!
Overall though, I really like iOS 5 and would recommend you upgrade to it as soon as it is safe to do.