How about spending more time on features and expanding the SDK instead of changing the way it looks and repackaging it?
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OH YES. Remove the faux leather from Calendar and the fake book from Contacts. Please.
I almost fainted when I first saw them on my iPad, and almost had a seizure when I saw them on OS X Lion.
I almost fainted when I first saw them on my iPad, and almost had a seizure when I saw them on OS X Lion.
What an incredibly stupid comment. It's actually impressive how condescending you are. Not sure to applaud or laugh at.
First, understand what an interface is, then, comment. Or even better, don't.
1. How are they listening to analysts?
2. Innovation can't be done every darn year. It's a slow process. Should iPhone have holograms or what exactly do you want Apple to "innovate"?
3. Debt was issued because it was less expensive than bringing over their money from across the world.
Maybe you should become CEO. I'm sure you'd lead Apple to "glorious" decision making.
A lot of you tend to assume they know what Apple should and should not do. You guys are a joke. I'm sure Apple would be seeking your "glorious" advice if it was so wise, but it isn't which is why they aren't.
Wow.. i'm impressed you can have sex without dying. I agree tho; they took it too far. On the other hand it did help in recognition, esp. for the elderly.
No. That's why this site is called "MacRumors". Nothing has been confirmed, it's all speculation.
I thought we had already been over this. Innovation means:
1. Bigger screen
2. Cheaper
This isn't a change in UI, it's just a deglossing. The actual interface will not change, they wouldn't throw out any kind of curveball at this point. Too many 4 year olds and grandmothers connecting with iDevices.
They will change the looks a bit, hopefully add some nice features, but I'd bet the way you actually perform tasks changes 0%.
They will change the looks a bit, hopefully add some nice features, but I'd bet the way you actually perform tasks changes 0%.
And this is what every Apple fan should hope for. If they change things radically the **** will hit the fan like Office 2010 / Win8 style.
And for the guys pushing for more engineers, it doesn't work like that. Typically throwing more people at a project in a late stage will improve schedules less than desired and lessen motivation of experienced people (now they babysit newcomers). The trick is to get the scope and backlog planned right early.
I stupidly thought Notes was reliable due to it being part of the OS. Boy was I fooled. After a crash I lost a large number of notes and recommend to anyone to stay the heck away. It's junk.
No offense my friend, but I've you'd know how software-engineering works, you'd know that "hire more engineers" is the best way to make your product fail big time, especially if you do it with quite some time into the project.
x*engineers = codeTime/x is not a linear equation
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just make sure there is a jailbreak in time... I'm looking at you, devteam
I don't think they can improve iOS by so much, that I would ditch my jailbreak tweaks....
It sounds good to me. Although I feel that the current iOS design is done in a professional and stylish way, it is really anything but minimalistic. There are lots of design elements that are unnecessary and purely decorative, something that any minimalist designer would cringe at.
With minimalism, it's extremely important to get things just right: since all you have is fonts, colors and shapes, those things have to be perfect. This is the difference between a 1999 website and a 2013 website: all you have is a white background, text, links, and a few images, but the difference is night and day.
This is where Windows 8 fails: the spacing, sizes and colors are just a tad wrong somehow, and this makes all the difference between a horrible-looking OS and a great-looking one. Animations need to feel responsive, text should be small but legible, buttons, controls should all look like you want to touch them, while content should stand out.
I have no fear that Apple will have trouble with any of this.
With minimalism, it's extremely important to get things just right: since all you have is fonts, colors and shapes, those things have to be perfect. This is the difference between a 1999 website and a 2013 website: all you have is a white background, text, links, and a few images, but the difference is night and day.
This is where Windows 8 fails: the spacing, sizes and colors are just a tad wrong somehow, and this makes all the difference between a horrible-looking OS and a great-looking one. Animations need to feel responsive, text should be small but legible, buttons, controls should all look like you want to touch them, while content should stand out.
I have no fear that Apple will have trouble with any of this.
Not exclusively. But children use it. The thing iOS has always had over competition is that it is so easy to use so it kind of helps eliminate the usual generational gap you see with technology.
Tim Cook is a fall guy. It's easy to blame him for all Apple's "problems," kind of like people blame Obama for all the US's problems. Society naturally blames the person in charge.
I'm surprised no one else seems concerned that they're taking Engineers from OS X 10.9 to work on iOS 7. I hope this means that 10.9 is in a good place, and not that their focus in general is more on iOS... because the second one would make me pretty sad.
This was true a year or two ago, but since the spike during and after introduction of the iPhone and iPad, app interest has waned a bit, so the race to the bottom isn't as lucrative as it used to be. I raised the prices of my apps, and actually earn more money (and they are charted apps).
I hope the graphical changes are one step to a more consistent OS.
Software design consistent with the minimalist hardware sounds great. Game Center being the current worst offender of being the opposite of minimalist.
But I hope they are looking at consistency within apps. Back to Game Center for another example. Look at individual games and you can see how many achievements you have. But you cannot see the achievement total for all your games, only the rather meaningless points total. Doubling up on scoring for achievements is an unnecessary complexity that is not like Apple. Remove the points please.
Simplicity and consistency are key. While this was key to iOS, it seems to have been forgotten in a few places in the additions over the years. But nothing that cannot be fixed relatively easily.
Software design consistent with the minimalist hardware sounds great. Game Center being the current worst offender of being the opposite of minimalist.
But I hope they are looking at consistency within apps. Back to Game Center for another example. Look at individual games and you can see how many achievements you have. But you cannot see the achievement total for all your games, only the rather meaningless points total. Doubling up on scoring for achievements is an unnecessary complexity that is not like Apple. Remove the points please.
Simplicity and consistency are key. While this was key to iOS, it seems to have been forgotten in a few places in the additions over the years. But nothing that cannot be fixed relatively easily.