Before we start g etting even deeper into our analyses of which startups and products Apple killed today with its iOS 6 and other announcements, we should all remember that it basically tried to build Spotify with social music network Ping, and well, look how that turned out.

If you’re planning the great American road trip this summer, here is a new site that can help you get the most out of your time. Roadtrippers , which also just secured its first round of seed funding, launched in public beta today. The Cincinnati-based service lets you create a basic route with directions for your trip using Google Maps.

Apple today announced that it will be discontinuing latest OS support for the Original iPad (in addition to the third generation iPod), striking a blow to pretty much every tech writer on earth who doesn’t buy things because of how thick they are okay well maybe just me. #thatswhatshesaid *A moment of silence.*

Why read about someone else when you could write about yourself? Soon the  “Tap to post” to Facebook and Twitter buttons  announced at WWDC  today will appear in iOS and OS X Mountain Lion’s Notifications centers so you’ll always be just a swipe away from sharing.

2011 was an impressive year for mobile exits: according to investment bank Rutberg  & Co . it topped out as the biggest-ever for mobile IPOs and acquisitions: $15.5 billion in total transactions, 63 percent higher than previous record holder, 2007. But halfway through 2012, Rutberg believes that this year could be either just as big or bigger: in the year to date, there have been $6.5 billion in transactions, according to new research out today

Facebook appears to be testing a way to drive users to re-engage with games by sending them a new type of notification, we’ve discovered. Some users are seeing notifications about their friends playing games. These notifications, which are different from requests, appear to come from Facebook, not the game itself

iOS 6 is chock-full of new stuff , with over 200 new features. Some are minor, like Mail VIPs which probably should have been implemented a long time ago, and some are pretty intense, like a brand new Maps app complete with 3D rendering. Now, Apple only showed off ten of the new features today, but which ones will go unnoticed (like the ultimately creepy “Find My Friends” app in iOS 5) and which will pick up like a basketball game on a public court

It’s simple really. The new MacBook Pro with the “Retina” display is something you have to see to believe.

Outside of search, the closest tie between Apple and Google so far was the deep integration of Google Maps in Apple’s products. That radically changed today, though it’s worth noting that the announcement was one of Apple’s worst kept secrets .

Founded in the mobile microscopy lab at UC Berkeley, a young startup called CellScope is on a mission to turn your smart, mobile devices into a microscope, giving parents the ability to perform easy, at-home diagnoses. Graduating as part of Rock Health’s inaugural batch of startups , CellScope is preparing to launch its first product, an otoscope — that strange-looking device doctors use to look in your ears — that can be attached to smartphones to enable anyone and everyone to perform remote diagnoses of, say, pediatric ear infections.