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Apple Codename Provides Clue About iOS 19's Rumored New Design
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Found some more "glass like" iOS19 leaks
There is no such thing as Sirigate. Only a few certain people are making a big deal about a missed deadline. It is better for Apple to make it right than pull a Google and release something before it is ready.
When Gruber is calling Apple out as he did, it's a big deal
Dismissing it away is carrying water for Apple where it shouldn't be carried
sure if it's good Skuemorphism its great but I think there's rose tinted glasses on how many bad app designs there were.
Also as a product designer, we barely have enough time to get designs done with out the needless visual junk. this isn't even getting into the absolute nightmare accessibility is with skuemorphism
The look of it doesn't concern me as much as them rearranging things forcing you to go through another learning to find where things went, if you can still do what you could do before or you have now to do it in a different way.
Yeah, but the sell it to us like we never had anything resembling a glass before. And I’m like “wtf are they talking about” iOS7 was about flat effing glass-like metaphor with semi transparent planes one over another.
Fix the real problems with all the operating systems, not the darn glitz. There are probably megabytes of complaints on the Apple servers about real issues that they have ignored. Thus we have coming more useless gadgets that suck up programming resources and sweep the real issues under the proverbial carpet - out of sight out of mind.....
Bovine byproducts!
Bovine byproducts!
It will be the most glass ever!
I feel like people who say this have rose tinted glasses about snow leopard.FFS Apple we need a Snow Leopard equivalent of an iOS/iPadOS (macOS, too) update
https://theilife.com/2008/06/wwdc-2008-mac-os-x-state-of-the-union-mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard/
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/28/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-15-years/
They remember the good parts, but not the awful awful trade-offs that came with it.
For example, the first two versions of snow leopard had a pretty showstopping bug, where, if you logged out of your main user account, all of your data could possibly be completely corrupted.
Snow leopard also, at launch, required a computer that was either three years old or newer. Even if you purchase a power Macintosh G5 in August 2006 while they were still being sold, by August 2009 you were out of luck.
Not to mention, Apple‘s statement that it had “zero new features” was just disingenuous, in fact I’d say compared to more modern releases like Monterey, Sonoma and Sequoia Snow leopard was feature packed.
A completely rewritten finder, completely rewritten QuickTime, a completely redesigned Safari, new Dock behavior, a scrambling of system preferences… if you go back, you’ll quickly find that it wasn’t as “zero new features” as you remember.
“Well, let's look at the release notes for the 10.6.1 update:
- compatibility with some Sierra Wireless 3G modems
- an issue that might cause DVD playback to stop unexpectedly
- some printer compatibility drivers not appearing properly in the add printer browser
- an issue that might make it difficult to remove an item from the Dock
- instances where automatic account setup in Mail might not work
- an issue where pressing cmd-opt-t in Mail brings up the special characters menu instead of moving a message
- Motion 4 becoming unresponsive
- an issue that might cause your system to logout unexpectedly
- a graphics distortion in Safari Top Sites
- Spotlight search results not showing Exchange contacts
- a problem that prevented authenticating as an administrative user
- issues when using NTFS and WebDAV file servers
- the reliability of menu extras
- an issue with the 4-finger swipe gesture
- an issue that causes Mail to quit unexpectedly when setting up an Exchange server
- Address Book becoming unresponsive when editing
- a problem adding images to contacts in Address Book
- an issue that prevented opening files downloaded from the Internet
- Safari plug-in reliability
- general reliability improvements for iWork, iLife, Aperture, Final Cut Studio, MobileMe, and iDisk
- an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account
We're not done. Here's 10.6.3:
- improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
- address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
- address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
- resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
- resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
- improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
- improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
- address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
- improve printing reliability
- resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
- improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
- fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera
- resolve an issue that causes the keyboard or trackpad to become unresponsive
- resolve an issue that may prevent some Adobe Creative Suite 3 applications from opening
- address issues copying, renaming, or deleting files on SMB file servers
- improve reliability of VPN connections
- resolve a playback issue in DVD Player when using Good Quality deinterlacing
- resolve an issue editing photos with iPhoto or Aperture in full screen view
- improve compatibility with some braille displays
Here’s hoping it works better. When ios7 was introduced, it was kind of an accessibility nightmareI'm mainly worried this will result in poorer accessibility and usability because it "looks cool".
Seriously! We've had more time without it than with it...in terms of Mac OS X (2001 and on). Current design is soulless.
LOL I figured it was a matter of time before people started having nostalgia for that.
Skeuomorphism was fine at first but it really went too far. The "address book" app on iPad in particular was stupid.
I’m down for a pseudo solarpunk iOS.
I’d also like to see them eventually add theme options to iOS as a whole, allow people to select between different eras, just as a bit of fun.
I’d also like to see them eventually add theme options to iOS as a whole, allow people to select between different eras, just as a bit of fun.
Not nostalgia, just personal taste. I appreciate that style.
People are so used to having a dark mode option nowadays that just going back to Snow Leopard’s UI wouldn’t work. A new version of Aqua with a specially-designed dark mode would be gorgeous though.
My vote if I had one, would be to make it a selectable theme.
Well, they could do a Snow Leopard by focusing only on the new design and crushing all the existing or remaining bugs. But they still have to introduce the new Siri and Apple Intelligence features that were announced last year so…FFS Apple we need a Snow Leopard equivalent of an iOS/iPadOS (macOS, too) update
https://theilife.com/2008/06/wwdc-2008-mac-os-x-state-of-the-union-mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard/
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/28/mac-os-x-snow-leopard-15-years/
I have a better idea: let iOS 20 be that Snow Leopard (or iOS 12) version, to consolidate or polish the new UI, and the features introduced along the past 3 or 4 years.