Apple Risking iOS 7 Delays With Jony Ive's Design Overhaul

[thejadedmonkey]

But dang if they didn't look nice doing it! I'm lucky enough to see a kernel panic on my MBA every month or so. I need to restart the SMC or something like that but haven't actually cared enough to do so yet...

They did look good! That's the Apple of old that I miss. Of course I also miss lickable buttons...

I'd take the macbook air in though, in 2 years (1.5?) of owning my air, I only had 3 kernel panics and they all occurred within a month. After the 3rd I took it to an Apple store and they swapped main boards no questions asked.

 

[bbfc]

Can't wait to see what direction he'll take iOS in - it is in need of a overhaul.

My mam recently bought a Nokia Lumia with WP8 and I love it. So fluid and the screen is really nice. It's a refreshing change. A stark contrast to the Android tablet my dad bought, which crashes all the time and is very sluggish.

 

[ikramerica]

Hopefully iOS7 is as big a change as System 7 was for the Macintosh, otherwise the iPhone is about to enter a death spiral. Unless something major happens, I'm done with the iPhone when my contract is up. 3G, 3GS, 4 and 5 have progressively been both better and worse products to own. And other than it's weight, I think my wife's 4S is still the best iPhone Apple built. But without a major boost to the OS, there is nowhere to go.

Contacts: without parent and child filing system, contacts on iOS and MacOS will remain a nuisance to use.
Mail: somethings got to change because it's really a poor experience on the iPhone (iPad is much better, but there's more real estate).
icon only navigation: really cumbersome. we need a -shudder- start menu...
Siri: so spotty I forget to use it when it would be useful. And because it requires speech, can't use it in many places. Why can't we type a request into Siri?
calendar: customization is necessary. MacOS has it, iOS no. Can't even customize alarms, or have more than two.
notes: really poor and outdated. and the bug where if you are editing a note and don't hit done before a shared note updates and you lose the note forever has to be fixed. my wife and I have lost valuable information, never to return.
Safari: Apple should implement a forced "x-out" over all pages and ads, because it now seems that companies are serving ads that can't be closed and don't work with Safari to autoclose automagically. So the website you are trying to visit it permanently buried.
Prevent unauthorized opening of iStores by Ads: again, don't let ads take over your phone. because third party advertisers have no scruples.

It's up to Apple to continually improve the iPhone and prevent third parties from ruining the iPhone experience. Over the last 2 years, Apple has done little to further either mandate.

 

[samcraig]

Could Mail use a visual refresh? Sure. Complete Overhaul? No.

Yes. (I disagree with you clearly)

Right now mail.app is just enough to get by nothing special or great. It could be so much more.

Exactly. And how often do WE agree?

Am I the only one that finds iOS mail fine? Its wickedly simple and easy to use.

If its something like the mailbox app that lets you easily set email reply reminders and keep you at a zero inbox that might make a bit more sense. It seems we are coming to a time in tech where competitors just come up with features to say they have done something new but are complicated, useless and never used.

I also find that gmail conversation threads get confusing. I find it odd you can't just delete one message in the email convo thread you can only delete the whole thread. If there's a way to do that I'd love to know because I can't figure it out.

For starters - why is there no way to multi select a bunch of emails you want to delete with some gesture? I have to manually select each one and then delete the batch?

That's the first thing off the top of my head. There's a lot that can be improved upon - not only UI.

 

[TyPod]

We should make a sticky saying what "flat" means.

 

[HenryDJP]

In my opinion, Mr. Ive is the last chance for Apple.. otherwise they are doomed. But hey, im just a middle class citizen, what do i know!

The part that I highlighted, AGREED!

 

[Rogifan]

Well then that make for poor planning if they are having to pull resources to get this done, regardless Cook screwed up.

How can we say anyone screwed up when nothing is delayed at this point?

 

[ckeck]

Pulling more devs/engineers away from OS X, where I spend ~85% of my time. Great...

 

[gugy]

Better take the time to get it right than rush to bring half ass product. I think Apple learned it the hard way.

 

[Krazy Bill]

Pulling more devs/engineers away from OS X, where I spend ~85% of my time. Great...

But Apple only takes 15% of your money and that's not enough. It's all about iOS my friend. When you finally accept being a 2nd class Apple citizen things just fall into place.

 

[Tiger8]

Then put it on a 5 inch screen. After having this HTC One for 2 weeks, I honestly will never go back to a 4 inch screen.

Let's talk in 2 months

 

[2ms]

Samsung's popularity is entirely marketing budget. touchwiz hasn't looked like ios much since ics. which is when they really took off

Nah, it's even more "aqua" than Aqua. The freakin' wallpaper is of a drop of water making a splash. All the soundeffects are basically extra juicy copies of Apple sounds.

I've never seen something so similar in computing or phones as Samsung devices and software to Apple devices and software. Congrats on them. They've destroyed all their competition except the one they are most similar to. They saw what was best and chose the shrewdest way to match it.

Let's just hope there will always be an Apple around for everyone to copy.

 

[Zachari]

I love that this article has nothing to do with android but it's still trashed even thou it's about ios heading in the direction android went over a year ago and adding in features android has had for several years.

What? Packing in useless nonsense in hopes to see what the users will like? Being first to the punch doesn't mean *****, unless you do it right.

 

[Nalmond92]

Umm, Ive was pretty great at the unibody event. You must not care much about design (or not as much as me) if you weren't fascinated to see Jony talk step by step about building a new design. I found it fascinating, and you could tell his passion.

While I do care about design and found the content of what he was say interesting. The way in which he presented it came across very timid, nervous and very jittery!

That was a while back now so maybe he's improved.

 

[apollo1444]

not only overhaul changes! also user input changes the keyboard is so ancient!

 

[lucas107]

What? Packing in useless nonsense in hopes to see what the users will like? Being first to the punch doesn't mean *****, unless you do it right.

I was talking about toggles a flat ui and default apps. none of which is useless and done perfectly. You know there is more to android than Samsung touchwiz

 

[celavato]

i hope they axe newsstand all together. email doesnt need a complete redo it just needs some new features and tweaks. The settings app needs a complete redo

I like Newsstand but it needs an iAuthor-like tool for publishers so that the apps are better.

 

[TennisandMusic]

Anyone else miss Steve Jobs? When he was around it was more or less certain things would be done mostly right.

Nowadays... we just don't know. They might completely screw things up.

I know one thing for sure; I won't be upgrading to iOS 7 until I've heard some reports from others about it!

I disagree. Yes, Jobs was great in many ways, but when he was around we were simply guaranteed that things would be done "Steve's way". We were not guaranteed things would be "mostly right".

If the report is true I am encouraged.

 

[Millah]

Sigh. No. The comparison to Windows 8 is more accurate.

Because you've actually seen iOS7, and know how to accurately compare if? Oh wait, you haven't.

Windows 8 is not the only visual style for "flat design." Jesus Christ, all these stupid buzzwords in tech are getting old. If Ive wants to get rid leather textures and green felt boards, that doesn't mean he needs to turn the OS into a neon-colored wasteland with square boxes. It's just a visual style, the actual user interface goes much deeper than that. He can get rid of the tacky textures in iOS and make the UI less dependent on depth effects, without turning everything into neon square boxes. You may have no imagination, but I'm sure they do.

 

[inscrewtable]

You've got to hand it to Apple by the time ios 7 is released the world will be so wound up that there will be a media frenzy the likes of which have not been seen since the last one.

 

[champ01]

Then put it on a 5 inch screen. After having this HTC One for 2 weeks, I honestly will never go back to a 4 inch screen.

And I still think the iPhone4(s) was just fine. The "bigger" hype will fade away trust me.

 

[hiptobesquare]

I wonder if it will actually start to look like LCARS, from Star Trek:TNG-era.

That is flat interface design.

 

[Boris-VTR]

For those saying Ie to do keynotes, I seem to remember him presenting at the unibody macbook pro keynote and he was pretty awful!

Hehe, yeah i watch it couple of day ago on youtube. His slow speaking stile (like in commercials and like Cook) but without much presentation skills was funny Still, i like him better than Cook and Schiller

 

[pezj]

First time long time...

I am excited to see what new features iOS will bring. I am done hearing how much better a 5" Andriod phone is. Unless I start wearing baggier shorts, I am not too interested.

 

[Mike Valmike]

Late software is only late until it ships. Bad software is bad forever. Even in today's age of patching, you'll never get every installation updated.