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For those excited by Ive's iOS 7...
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Again, not true. Adding the ability to share with any app uses more battery? Adding the ability to replace app defaults uses more battery? Widgets/live info isn't the only feature that missing that makes iOS stale. And there is a huge difference between using more battery, and using more battery that makes an appreciable difference in daily battery life.
That's not out of ideas, that's called Apple's grudge match with Google taking a front seat at the customer's expense. They wanted off of Google maps and to quit paying Google for the map licenses ASAP and rushed their Maps as a result.
It would be hard to be less of an upgrade than iOS6, so I'm expecting more, but I don't think it will be a radical change.
iOS 7 beta 1 might be soon, if you guys look at iOS 3 as an example it went to 3.1.3, and we are on 6.1.3, so 7.0 (if Apple plans to unveil for a June release again) might be soon previewed, I am still awaiting OS X 10.9, which I know 10.8.3 should be the last OS X build since they spent so much time to get it correct and finally release it.
If the rumors of a return to an earlier/summer iPhone release are true, then likely we will also see iOS 7 earlier than we saw iOS 6 last year.
But for this to happen, then iOS 7 (likely with 10.9) will need to be previewed at an Apple event before the end of April, IMO.
This is also when they will hopefully unveil the new Mac Pros.
So I'm guessing something HUGE is coming in April and its not just the Mac Pros. However with OS X 10.9, it COULD be announced at WWDC since they've done it with Snow Leopard, I may be wrong though. For me, right now, April is a safe bet since Apple holds one event in Spring and since an iPad event is out of the question, most likely we will see an iOS/OS X event.
With the various personell changes, Apple's deep in transition. I'm sure something good will come of it eventually. These things take time.
I echo the widgets comments. I want them! At least give the negative nellies a way to turn them off. But I loved that about android. Getting updated info even like windows mobiles tiles is great too. It's just those OS' are terrible. But man would I love to be up to date like android. The wonder effect has been lost and its time to keep up. The S4 looks amazing and if I wasn't so deep in the apple ecosystem I would switch. Everyone here secretly knows android and Samsung are out doing iOS and apple, they just don't want to accept it. I just wish apple would listen to consumers more instead of force a tyrannical, Orwellian OS on us.
You will never see widgets on the current ios form like you can enjoy on android os, it just dont flow and i dare to say that current screen size of the iphone 5 and 4/s just wont allow a proper field for it.
They sure as hell wont waste time with clock and weather widgets, you allready haventhe time on the status bar plus a weather widget on the notification center, i rather they open api for it so whe can see developer have a share of that.
Not to me - instead of having a lot of applications on a page it has big pictures - don't want - no thanks.
I want applications and not fancy screens.
I'll bet if someone actually listed all the things that were introduced in ios6 there'd be a huge number of significant changes and not only a failed map application.
Apple and Google are no more going to get along than the different political parties in the US. Neither group is interested in anything except being able to claim(whether true or not) that they won.
Where Apple is with the current stable bug fix releases has nothing to do when they are going to roll out a major update. The same development team isn't the same one working on the bug fix releases. More than likely the time frame has more to do when the new iPhone is rolling out.
Does not look like it would be great on battery life. Although I must admit it does look rather appealing but at a cost no doubt.
To be honest, I don't really need them to overhaul the entire look and feel of iOS for me to be happy. In my opinion, if you have a good user interface, sometimes it's best to just keep it as it is, and only change things when you think of a good idea. Look at OS X for example... OS X hasn't changed much in terms of look and feel since it was introduced over 10 years ago. What they have done is they have tweaked things here and there to make it look nicer and run smoother and that's all that iOS really needs. If iOS 7 just looks a little bit nicer and carries at least a couple of useful features, I will probably be happy.
And then they'll be b#tching about sucky battery life.
Welcome to widgets and dead batteries, the Android way of life! ;-)
Welcome to widgets and dead batteries, the Android way of life! ;-)
Honestly, iOS 7 will probably not have any of these. Apple is not going to drastically alter anything because millions of people use their devices and they cater more to the casual user than the techie user.
I jailbroke my iPhone 5 and was amazed to find out I could get elegant solutions to most of these problems now. Today. All I had to do was download evasion, plug in my phone, and hit one button. I now have simple toggles in my notification center than resemble something Apple would do themselves with NC Settings. I have a better multitasking solution with Auxo. I have gesture controls with Zephyr. I can swipe up from anywhere to reveal the multitasking tray. I can swipe between open apps. With iFile I have a file manager even though I hardly use it. And with safari download manager I can download files through safari. All of these do not look ugly and look like a solution Apple would have come up with. My battery is the same and my phone has not crashed once.
I jailbroke my iPhone 5 and was amazed to find out I could get elegant solutions to most of these problems now. Today. All I had to do was download evasion, plug in my phone, and hit one button. I now have simple toggles in my notification center than resemble something Apple would do themselves with NC Settings. I have a better multitasking solution with Auxo. I have gesture controls with Zephyr. I can swipe up from anywhere to reveal the multitasking tray. I can swipe between open apps. With iFile I have a file manager even though I hardly use it. And with safari download manager I can download files through safari. All of these do not look ugly and look like a solution Apple would have come up with. My battery is the same and my phone has not crashed once.
iOS 7 is already in testing since end of last year, so the reference to 6 months is kinda unreliable.
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/01/01/2013-iphone-and-ios-7-already-appearing-in-developers-logs/