[rince]

For being a review of the iPhone 5, notice that it is only focused on the hardware. There is no talk of iOS 6 at all.

And personally, I think that iOS 6 is a disappointment and no one wants to admit it. The hardware is eclipsing the software.

[masklinn]

> And personally, I think that iOS 6 is a disappointment and no one wants to admit it. The hardware is eclipsing the software.

The actual explanation is that the iOS6 beta was made available in June, people have been talking about it for 3 months. It's old news (and felt enormously boring during the keynote as we'd already seen pretty much everything they demoed aside from — I believe — panorama). The hardware, on the other hand, is new.

[cageface]

As an iOS developer I was really looking forward to iOS 6. Both iOS 4 & 5 seemed like house-cleaning updates that improved the plumbing and developer experience to set the stage for more daring and forward thinking changes in 6.

It was actually when I first saw the new feature list for 6 that I began to worry that Apple had lost its momentum and the lackluster iPhone 5 only reinforces that feeling.

[connortomas]

iOS 6 is not unique to the iPhone 5, so it wouldn't make sense for Gruber to review the latest version of the OS as a "feature" of the new phone. It makes sense to distinguish the hardware from the software.

[micahgoulart]

iOS 6 has been out in beta since June so no real need for Gruber to review it now.