Skeuomorphic Scott where are YOU!!!
Am I the only one not liking the new design?
Don't get me wrong I like how Apple is making an effort to standardize the look across its apps but I am not liking this whole glass look.
I miss Scott and I miss Skeuomorphic design. This new android/WinMo garbage is taking away everything that was the iPhone. This is conformity which is what was wrong with Apple before Steve got back in charge and turned the company back around a few years later. I ran iOS 7 with an open mind but after 4 days on my daily I desperately switched back to iOS 6. Nothing felt the same and what I have come to know and love about my Apple products for so long now. I am all for change and updates but total abandonment of what made you so successful, not for that. I love all the feature updates, that I am not complaining about. I am not complaining about the bugs as I knew going into it that is was a Beta, it is the design that I hate. Could it be tweaked before release? Yes, but they did a complete overhaul and minor tweaks to the design won't change it enough to make it familiar again. Skeuomorphic design felt premium because there was attention to detail and it tried to mimic reality. I do not plan to update to iOS 7 when it is released and I am recommending to everyone I know not to make the jump. This is not Apple at its best and I hope they realize their mistake before it is too late.
I know this is supposed to be a rumor site. But this rumor isn't even believable. It's just blown up pictures of ios7 for iPhone.
It's interesting how Apple tells developers to write new layouts specifically designed for the iPad, but then all Apple themselves provide is a blown-up iPhone UI.
I hope that the final iOS7 iPad UI treats the iPad as a first-tier client and gives it a thoroughly tablet experience.
Man, I don't know what reality you're talking about. The skeuomorphism in iOS/OSX is atrocious. I can't remember the last time I used a physical paper notebook, legal pad or calendar. I actually feel insulted whenever I see it. It's like putting a turtle and rabbit on my car's speedometer like I'm some illiterate idiot that needs translation and comfort for the things I look at.Skeuomorphic design felt premium because there was attention to detail and it tried to mimic reality. I do not plan to update to iOS 7 when it is released and I am recommending to everyone I know not to make the jump.
Man, I don't know what reality you're talking about. The skeuomorphism in iOS/OSX is atrocious. I can't remember the last time I used a physical paper notebook, legal pad or calendar. I actually feel insulted whenever I see it. It's like putting a turtle and rabbit on my car's speedometer like I'm some illiterate idiot that needs translation and comfort for the things I look at.
That said, the color scheme of iOS7 it too freaking gaudy. My eyeballs start to bleed every time I look at it.
Skeuomorphic Scott where are YOU!!!
Am I the only one not liking the new design?
Don't get me wrong I like how Apple is making an effort to standardize the look across its apps but I am not liking this whole glass look.
Do people realize that this is just the iPhone controls resizing using autolayout on the iPad?
This means literally nothing was done to customize for the iPad - because the interface wasn't ready for the iPad in this build.
People are mistaking this for a true version of iOS 7 for iPad, when its just the iPhone version scaled up.
That would suggest AutoLayout is working pretty well then.
You read the comments above, first, didn't you?
There's a reason Apple did not demo iOS 7 on iPad at WWDC during the keynote. It's not ready for primetime.
What you're seeing is the iPhone UI blown up to fit the larger screen, ala Android phone apps on Android tablets (not the same thing as iPhone on iPad), and iPhone apps on iPad have the built in "1x / 2x" button and users should know the difference.
Guys, if you read the instructions they give to do it, they're just copying over the default settings from the iPad under iOS 6 and emulating it with the iPhone's iOS 7 resources.
In other words, this is not the iPad with iOS 7. It's the iPad with the iPhone interface stretched across the frame. This is why the flashlight toggle is there too.
I hope Apple makes use of the iPad's larger screen real estate for some apps to run at the same time on the display a la the MS Tablet commercial. Run a Pages or Numbers document with a small portion of the screen available for IM chatting with clients or so-workers. The iPad would benefit from "true" multitasking that doesn't require double clicking/fingers swipes to open the multitasking menu, selecting the app, and repeating this process again. Why can't a simple iMessage reply be sent without having to leave the app you're in?
If this is a iPhone UI stretched to fit a larger screen why is the Calendar icon different than the one shown on the iPhone? Doesn't iOS 6 have icon variances between iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch?
Also keyboard?
Split screen multi-tasking could be something they're keeping secret this fall. Remember that nothing was demoed on the ipad at wwdc.
It's interesting how Apple tells developers to write new layouts specifically designed for the iPad, but then all Apple themselves provide is a blown-up iPhone UI.
I hope that the final iOS7 iPad UI treats the iPad as a first-tier client and gives it a thoroughly tablet experience.
Good luck with all those white UI on your iPad screen. Your eyes should feel great after long period of time.
iOS 7 is probably the least clean and consistent software I have ever seen
You have never even seen a Beta version of iOS7 running on an iPad so how can you make that claim?and iPad blows it up to be worse.
What is settings? Is that a gear wheel for a bicycle? Why is there no consistency in the icons? Why are there two compasses for two different apps? The colors are way too saturated, not easy on the eyes. Game center - what the hell? Photos icon? Tedious and uninspired Camera? Ugly and overtelling, not representing the hardware (lens used) on the back. Passport? OMG. And so on... Apple can't be serious about this? I won't upgrade to iOS 7 and I have already reversed to iOS 6 again. Gonna go for stock Android if they do not fix that iOS. There are also buttons missing in the OS so text is just floating around, even badly aligned.