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Alternate Icons on iOS 7 Website Likely Old Marketing Material

dragje said:
Bad news for Apple: The iOS 7 backlash has begun

Craig Federighi, Apple senior vice president of software engineering, announces the company's iOS 7 mobile software at Apple's Worldwide Developers.

Apple described the revamped look of its upcoming iOS 7 software as "stunning," with "an elegant color palette" and typography that's been "refined for a cleaner, simpler look."

But a chorus of critics is chiming in with negative reviews of the mobile operating system.
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1. They are dissing a beta, things can and do change.

2. When has Apple released anything that wasn't dissed by the vocal, the bloggers etc. I can't think of a single thing. And yet when it comes to the masses, they generally have little to no issue with buying, updating etc.
3. When has an Apple announcement ever not had the stocks go down.

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Walter White said:
Of course people will complain, but this time Apple did **** things up.
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In your opinion. And the opinion of a few vocal folks. That's all.

This isn't like trusting whomever said the Maps dataset was fine or releasing an iOS to the public with a major wifi bug in it.

It's a developer beta. And folks need to keep that in mind. And that colors etc are easy to swap in and out and the real point of the preview was the mechanics.
 
Flat

Just a few words related to "flat" from Merriam-Webster that pretty much describe the iOS 7 experience:

aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless; blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular; annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating; longsome; palling; draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing; debilitating, enfeebling; demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting; common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid; cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flat

BTW, I'm a huge Mac fan, but feel that the company has totally lost the plot since Jobs is gone. Such a shame...
 
ROTTEN-AAPL said:
Just a few words related to "flat" from Merriam-Webster that pretty much describe the iOS 7 experience:

aseptic, barren, blah, dullish, pleasureless, prosaic, prosy, soggy, spiritless; blank, earthbound, gray (also grey), inanimate, pallid, pedantic, sterile, suspenseless, undramatic, uneventful, unexciting, unimaginative, uninspiring, unnewsworthy, unrewarding, unsensational, unspectacular; annoying, bothersome, irksome, irritating; longsome; palling; draining, enervating, exhausting, fatiguing, wearing; debilitating, enfeebling; demoralizing, discouraging, disheartening, dispiriting; common, commonplace, ordinary, tepid, unexceptional, unsurprising, vapid; cumbersome, lumbering, plodding, poky (or pokey)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flat
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It's not even flat. What I mean is that if it would have gone completely flat I wouldn't have loved it, but I could have understood and appreciated it. iOS7 isn't flat at all...consider the hated Game Center icon. Why are the blobs 3d? Why the unneeded translucency? On the other hand, maps and calendar are perfectly flat. How about, Weather, App Store, Safari, and Mail? They all have gradients on them for no good reason.

And the color palette is unfortunate...13 year old girl is about right. I look at it and can't help of thinking of unicorns, bubble gum, and glossy boy band posters. ...Is probably indicative of some underlying problem I have, but that's the association I make with the white, pink, purple, and baby blue.

I hope they know what they're doing because I think this is a big mistake they're making. The iPhone already has a stigma seen as small, fragile, simple, device for taking pictures, and playing games. By adopting this teenage girl graphic design they're going to push away a ton of people.

Jony's Favorite Magazine
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charlituna said:
In your opinion. And the opinion of a few vocal folks. That's all.

This isn't like trusting whomever said the Maps dataset was fine or releasing an iOS to the public with a major wifi bug in it.

It's a developer beta. And folks need to keep that in mind. And that colors etc are easy to swap in and out and the real point of the preview was the mechanics.
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They did a crappy job on it and it won't change much. There is no warmth in it and heart Apple put in in previous releases. In some corners it's total windows phone rip off.

Steve was GREAT at one thing he would whine, curse, call people things and what not and in the proccess force them to do a better job. In these things there can't be a democracy.

This is BS. Basically this is a theme with very few minor UI advancements.

Explain me this crap:

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Seems like they did'nt thought things trough and trough. Wat we've got is version2 in beta...

Rumors are going everywhere about this subject.
 
Walter White said:
They did a crappy job on it and it won't change much. There is no warmth in it and heart Apple put in in previous releases. In some corners it's total windows phone rip off.

Steve was GREAT at one thing he would whine, curse, call people things and what not and in the proccess force them to do a better job. In these things there can't be a democracy.

This is BS. Basically this is a theme with very few minor UI advancements.

Explain me this crap:

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Gladly.

That looks like a screenshot from the first Beta release of iOS 7.

It looks to me exactly like the sort of thing that Beta releases are designed for, i.e. to spot odd glitches such as that.

An example which looks like it can simply be rectified by shifting the album art down a bit.
 
johngordon said:
Gladly.

That looks like a screenshot from the first Beta release of iOS 7.

It looks to me exactly like the sort of thing that Beta releases are designed for, i.e. to spot odd glitches such as that.

An example which looks like it can simply be rectified by shifting the album art down a bit.
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That's all you see? Ah, ok then. I feel reassured.
 
I'd love to see a live weather icon that changes to a rainy icon if it rains or snowing icon if it snows. That might be cool.

But all in all I think the icons are well done, just need some tweaks. The game center icon being quasi flat is a bit weird for instance. I'm not saying they need to be a slave to flatness, but it just looks out of place.
 
sheesh, what a bunch of fuddy duddys. "The colors are too bright!" lol. I'm 48, not 13, and I like them. I'm not afraid of color. The logo for my own business is lime green and bright blue and it looks modern and fresh. People need to get over it or just buy something else if it bothers you so badly.

Seriously, I really don't understand why it's such a hardship to swipe down the notification center to view the current weather. It's faster than unlocking your phone so I really don't get it.
 
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Walter White said:
That's all you see? Ah, ok then. I feel reassured.
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Assuming I'm looking at your screenshot that shows the album art classing with the text for the album name and artist, where there's an obvious solution of moving the album art down a bit so that it doesn't clash, then yes, that's all I see there.

Why, what do you see?
 
johngordon said:
Assuming I'm looking at your screenshot that shows the album art classing with the text for the album name and artist, where there's an obvious solution of moving the album art down a bit so that it doesn't clash, then yes, that's all I see there.

Why, what do you see?
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If you move it a bit it won't make a difference, because it will still overlay and block controls (count the pixels), so what else you can do? Basically some one just randomly put all objects without bothering to think it through. Whole screen is bad design. What about slide to unlock? Slide where? NO visual cues where to slide. Guess?
 
laurim said:
sheesh, what a bunch of fuddy duddys. "The colors are too bright!" lol. I'm 48, not 13, and I like them. I'm not afraid of color. The logo for my own business is lime green and bright blue and it looks modern and fresh. People need to get over it or just buy something else if it bothers you so badly.

Seriously, I really don't understand why it's such a hardship to swipe down the notification center to view the current weather. It's faster than unlocking your phone so I really don't get it.
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I'd largely go along with that, but still think some of the icons just aren't great designs.

Take the Safari icon for example - because the blue circle part has the gradient, and is light at the top, there then isn't enough contrast between that light blue, and the white dashes around the edge of the compass, which is exaggerated by the white outer part of the icon. It just plain doesn't work.

Or the Newsstand icon. It looks to me like the marketing people, or whoever, suggested having a few magazines to represent a newsstand. But for me, it just doesn't work.
 
Walter White said:
If you move it a bit it won't make a difference, because it will still overlay and block controls (count the pixels), so what else you can do? Basically some one just randomly put all objects without bothering to think it through.
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There's plenty of space between the bottom of the volume control, and the 'Slide to unlock' text for album art. If you want to count the pixels, and there's not enough, there can't be much in it that wouldn't be solved by making the album art slightly smaller.

Speaking of which, that should really be 'Swipe to unlock' though, as there is no longer anything to slide.
 
johngordon said:
There's plenty of space between the bottom of the volume control, and the 'Slide to unlock' text for album art. If you want to count the pixels, and there's not enough, there can't be much in it that wouldn't be solved by making the album art slightly smaller.

Speaking of which, that should really be 'Swipe to unlock' though, as there is no longer anything to slide.
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If you want artwork not to overlay controls you must move it down about 235 pixels. If you move it 235 pixels down it will overlay slide to unlock.
 
Walter White said:
If you want artwork not to overlay controls you must move it down about 235 pixels. If you move it 235 pixels down it will overlay slide to unlock.
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Unless you move it down and make it a bit smaller.

Seems to solve the problem pretty simply.
 
Walter White said:
If you want artwork not to overlay controls you must move it down about 235 pixels. If you move it 235 pixels down it will overlay slide to unlock.
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You wouldn't have to move the album art down at all if the color of the space the controls are in was more opaque. Remembering the keynote demo, I thought the controls were on a much more opaque white frosty area than the one you show. The background was only slightly visible, although I'm talking the user-defined main background, not an album cover within Music.

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dylanspronck said:
Take note, Jony. I especially like the more flower-like icon.
[url=http://tristanedwards.me/images/iOS7/home-screen.png]Image[/URL]
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I thought this designer's strict grid-based widget layouts for live info was good at keeping the main screen design theory. BUT, Apple doing that *might* bring on a patent lawsuit since it's similar to Windows Live Tiles and Samsung live widgets. idk
 
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Walter White said:
If it's so simple, why it wasn't done in the first place? Seems like it's two hours (being very generous) to solve object placement "problem".
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Its a first beta release, of a new OS that started down the route of a radical overhaul around eight months ago.

I don't know why there's any surprise that its not perfect. Something like that is likely to be resolved.

If everything was done correctly 'first time round' there wouldn't need to be beta releases of software.

The thing that I find most odd about iOS 7 so far is the limiting of nine apps per folder page. It seems crazy to me to add an extra step to get to many apps. If folders could display 12 or 16 apps previously, I don't get why they would reduce that to nine now, even if you can have unlimited apps over multiple pages inside a folder.

Plus the roundness of the folder background is way too much IMO, which goes against the look and feel of the revamped apps. Although I'm only using an iPhone 4, so no transparency and it looks awful.
 
Walter White said:
If it's so simple, why it wasn't done in the first place? Seems like it's two hours (being very generous) to solve object placement "problem".
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The fact that you are on here moaning about an obvious bug in beta software tells me that you shouldn't be running beta software at all. If you were in a position where you needed to run beta software, you would know that this is something that will be fixed. The amount of whining on here is incredible.
 
Seriously apple, I would rather have a updated current weather icon vs a clock that moves with hands I can barely see! Just add a current weather icon!!!
 
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