Oh, my comment was to clarify that the os didn't slow down my iphone 4. I just didn't think anyone would think it was going to be faster than ios6.
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Oh, my comment was to clarify that the os didn't slow down my iphone 4. I just didn't think anyone would think it was going to be faster than ios6.
How about you go read a book or google it yourself. I've posted a link already... twice. There is plenty out there to read on the subject. Have fun.
Agree 100%
I'm just an outsider, but I've been with OS X since the early days. Oh those were such cool days.
As a product guy, I keep reading between the lines that way too much leeway may have been given to Jony Ive (I have nothing against him and like his industrial design). Someone that needed to have said No, didn't though. Ultimately this falls on Tim Cook.
This may ultimately turn out okay for Apple but I've been around this block long enough to know that the initial user input is a great indicator of a product's success. The problems of this rollout do offer a learning experience for anyone in design or product decisions.
Never think, you know better than users. Never stop listening to what users are telling you.
Listen and act.
I hope Apple is willing to listen to what many users are saying about flat design and colors. I see a few who enjoy the design, but overall the sentiment is negative and for very valid reasons.
When user experience and usability suffer because of someone's aesthetic choice, there is a leadership problem.
Flat design is a trend that forces users to "have to figure it out". It's poorly implemented in most cases. A website that was linked on HackerNews, showed before iOS7 apps compared to post iOS7 apps. Most of the comments favored the pre-iOS7 apps. Flat design harms the user experience and the whole reduction of affordance increases cognitive load unnecessarily.
Someone should have said "NO" or at least, "Not this way."
I'm just an outsider, but I've been with OS X since the early days. Oh those were such cool days.
As a product guy, I keep reading between the lines that way too much leeway may have been given to Jony Ive (I have nothing against him and like his industrial design). Someone that needed to have said No, didn't though. Ultimately this falls on Tim Cook.
This may ultimately turn out okay for Apple but I've been around this block long enough to know that the initial user input is a great indicator of a product's success. The problems of this rollout do offer a learning experience for anyone in design or product decisions.
Never think, you know better than users. Never stop listening to what users are telling you.
Listen and act.
I hope Apple is willing to listen to what many users are saying about flat design and colors. I see a few who enjoy the design, but overall the sentiment is negative and for very valid reasons.
When user experience and usability suffer because of someone's aesthetic choice, there is a leadership problem.
Flat design is a trend that forces users to "have to figure it out". It's poorly implemented in most cases. A website that was linked on HackerNews, showed before iOS7 apps compared to post iOS7 apps. Most of the comments favored the pre-iOS7 apps. Flat design harms the user experience and the whole reduction of affordance increases cognitive load unnecessarily.
Someone should have said "NO" or at least, "Not this way."
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As for the icons I don't really see anything 'feminine' about them. The problem I have is that many of them lost their signature colors. Those colors were my main cues for where to tap. Calendar, Reminders and Notes are now all white with some dinky stuff on them. Not intuitive. Do distinct symbols or do colors, I don't care, but this is neither nor.
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I still have a problem with the icons, the color scheme, and brightness of everything.
I bought my iPhone because I liked iOS 6 and regular software updates, but I wasn't counting on iOS 7 being like this. Now I'm stuck between choosing security updates and keeping an OS that I like, ugh.
I bought my iPhone because I liked iOS 6 and regular software updates, but I wasn't counting on iOS 7 being like this. Now I'm stuck between choosing security updates and keeping an OS that I like, ugh.
I'd like to know this as well.... My folders look like crap
The folder colour takes its cue from the wallpaper - as far as I can tell it averages out the predominant colours of your background to make the folder background colour. If you don't like the colour it chooses, try a new background until you do.
I totally agree with the loss of visual cues. There are some other things that make it harder to use at a glance as well. The top bar on the info screen doesn't have a shadow behind it. This makes it very hard to read the time or battery life or signal level if there is any light colors behind them.
I totally agree with you. Although I've been using iOS 7 for a couple of hours, I find that the interface has too much white in it. For example, there is a high contrast in text mesages. The font is too thin and white, and the bubble is electric green.
I wish I would have the option to choose a much opaque color, such as navy blue.
Being that said, I like the way iOS 7 looks on my iPhone. I don't find it girl-ish or gay-ish, and I have nothing against homosexual people.
In my opinion Jony Ive is a great hardware genius, but he should stay
away from software.
The only thing that made iOS "different" is it's Skeuomorphic design which
was simply awesome.
I like the old board-style menus, the old icons, voice recorder, notepad and simply everything about it, that what made an Apple product different from
some "Windows 8ish" junk.
Now its all gone, sadly.
Hopefully Mavericks won't be the same, else I stick with 10.8 forever.
away from software.
The only thing that made iOS "different" is it's Skeuomorphic design which
was simply awesome.
I like the old board-style menus, the old icons, voice recorder, notepad and simply everything about it, that what made an Apple product different from
some "Windows 8ish" junk.
Now its all gone, sadly.
Hopefully Mavericks won't be the same, else I stick with 10.8 forever.
Thanks.... I guess I'll have to start experimenting with different backgrounds.
I wish they gave us a couple of alternatives for color themes.
In other words your folders will look godawful unless you use a black background?
I see some of the wallpapers built into iOS7 makes it nigh on impossible to even see the folders, so you left looking at a screen with lots of tiny oddly placed icons floating about.
Found a half decent black background on google images so that works for me.
+100
This is so on point. Honestly, as an outsider it is difficult to see how Apple would be worse off if Jony were to push off. He has talent and knowledge, but a severely wounded ego. Those wounds were laid when Jobs put him in his proper place. There is no doubt Steve would have puked, figuratively for sure if not literally, on this design. Yet, Cook allowed it to be forced on Apple's substantial and diverse user base. A major mistake. I've sold all AAPL.
Interesting that both Microsoft and Apple lost the ball, and added a new bad UI.
Both companies cannot change direction now, they are stuck with this.
Sinofsky is already gone. Jony Ive... well, as someone said, he should have stayed with hardware.
Both companies cannot change direction now, they are stuck with this.
Sinofsky is already gone. Jony Ive... well, as someone said, he should have stayed with hardware.
I'll laugh at you when AAPL stock goes back above $600.
Heck, I'd have bought your stock if I actually believed your story.
I dunno if I'd go that far, but the guy could learn some restraint.
I don't want to come across as bashing it just to bash it because there are quite a few things in 7 that I think are excellent upgrades (new Safari is great)...but...damn. It's like the most pointlessly flashy OS I've ever used. It's like you jump into a folder and it zoooooooms in. Jump into an app from there, and it zoooooooms in some more. Exit it, and you have to zooooom out then zoooooom out again to get back to the springboard. It's something that'd look great while it's setting on a store display, but it's all a bunch of uncessary animations that do nothing but add extra time to the most basic tasks. Once you get past that initial oooh neat phase, it gets real old real fast.
If Ives decides to design hardware the way he designs UIs, the next iPad is gonna have a couple of spinner rims welded onto the back, and the Apple logo will be frosted glass on top of a strobe light.
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BWAAAHAAAHAAA!
AAPL jumped 2% today (and another 0.9% aftermarket). The street sees it as a bargain. iPhone 5S reviews are through the roof. Idiotic time to sell. Hilarious.
I quickly skimmed this thread. Wayyyy too many posts. I just wish to confirm something. How come the original article says build is 11a470a? Does that mean I should still update from GM?
EDIT: checking in other threads, looks like GM is the same. Article is messed up (says 7.0 is 11a470a and 7.0.1 is 11a466) and should be updated with the correct build numbers.
EDIT: checking in other threads, looks like GM is the same. Article is messed up (says 7.0 is 11a470a and 7.0.1 is 11a466) and should be updated with the correct build numbers.
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So in order to voice an opinion I need to provide fanboys like you with a complete UI critique? Glad I don't put any value on your opinion, however clearly there are more people here who dislike the new UI than like it. Maybe you should get on their cases too, because none of them provided any such UI critique.
People like you should get out more.
Which is why I called out whining in general, I just happened to hit quote on yours after reading way too much of the same. Sadly this has become the norm on MR in the last few years.
As far as getting out, note the hours in between my posts. I am enjoying an amazing day at Lake Tahoe whilst attempting to acclimate to the altitude before Ironman Lake Tahoe this weekend. Pretty much only reading this thread to see if there are any bugs with the models I have installed iOS 7 on.
No Luck
I have been trying to download iOS7 for much of the day on the East coast (U.S.), and have not had any luck. I tired my iPhone 4 and iPad 3 several times over WiFi, which will download but then claim an error right before it installs. Afterwards it starts downloading iOS7 all over again, only to hit an error message at the end each time.
Then I moved on to trying iTunes 11.1 to download iOS7, and it is the same thing; it keeps downloading the whole iOS7 over and over again but never installs it. If Apple's networks are slow I would imagine it is people having to unnecessarily download the whole iOS7 each time only to get an error message.
My current wait time is just about 130 hours using iTunes. Wait, scratch that, I just been kicked out again. Oh well, I was really looking forward to this today, but I guess I will have to wait until next week.
I have been trying to download iOS7 for much of the day on the East coast (U.S.), and have not had any luck. I tired my iPhone 4 and iPad 3 several times over WiFi, which will download but then claim an error right before it installs. Afterwards it starts downloading iOS7 all over again, only to hit an error message at the end each time.
Then I moved on to trying iTunes 11.1 to download iOS7, and it is the same thing; it keeps downloading the whole iOS7 over and over again but never installs it. If Apple's networks are slow I would imagine it is people having to unnecessarily download the whole iOS7 each time only to get an error message.
My current wait time is just about 130 hours using iTunes. Wait, scratch that, I just been kicked out again. Oh well, I was really looking forward to this today, but I guess I will have to wait until next week.
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If you still have 34934 hours left to complete the download, you might want to download the GM (which is exactly the same as the release today). I downloaded it just to compare the MD5 checksum and it was the same from the Sep 10 GM release.
Then restore manually from iTunes.
Mirrors:
http://pastebin.com/DZ5KTt0L
Mega.co.nz is the fastest.
Then restore manually from iTunes.
Mirrors:
http://pastebin.com/DZ5KTt0L
Mega.co.nz is the fastest.
The old iOS had an evenness of style, texture, and color that was very pleasing. The skeumorphism was cheesy but very intuitive. iOS7 lacks that balance -- colors are either too fluorescent or white, numbers and text letters are not scaled well, and icons in folders are now tiny while the non-foldered icons look huge because of the flatness.
This kind of reminds me of the old iMac vs. the 2012 imacs. The old imacs had a bulkier but balanced build, whereas the new imacs are unnecessarily thin on the sides but have this awkward back pregnant bulge. It's flashy to have an all in one computer that's so thin on the side but if you look at the back it looks awkward.
This kind of reminds me of the old iMac vs. the 2012 imacs. The old imacs had a bulkier but balanced build, whereas the new imacs are unnecessarily thin on the sides but have this awkward back pregnant bulge. It's flashy to have an all in one computer that's so thin on the side but if you look at the back it looks awkward.