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Apple Seeds iOS 7 Beta 3 to Developers
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About how long does it take to prepare the update... it seems like it's been preparing the update for ages now.
I'm glad they fixed the laggy bookmarks page.
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Took me about 8 minutes.
Yes it's fine, but for some reason I'm not being prompted for it when I check. It says I'm on the most recent version. Does it prompt you to update?
Here's the truth of it though, as the younger generation comes through, there's a lot of skeuomorphism (or terms based off physical equivalents) that has no usefulness for them. A leather calendar ? Dodge and burn tools? In 5 years, someone who is 15 won't have a clue why you'd do that. Lest we forget, iTunes had a CD in it's icon for the longest time, but it'd be silly to include something like that now...
It's kind of weird to think that a person's visual vocabulary will soon have very little to do with the physical world around them, because the equivalent is basically no longer there.
Not really of fan of the look - but i have a choice - to use it or not.
One reason this WILL be a success for Apple is that the only thing we really complaining about is that WE DONT like the LOOK of the NEW DESIGN but no real complaints on functionality - we really wanted a newer look then the OLD - but was not used to the new design really replacing the old familiar comfortable look we have since 2007.
This "vista version" of IOS will still have a better adaption rate, the majority of devices APPLE has out there will get this update for free. Vista for Micro$oft was a PAID update where as all we do on our idevices is UPDATE and we have it.
The phone qualty and eco system will also force people to use to update to ios7 - so we may not like it - but its here to stay and we can choose to jump ship.
for ME perosnally I will wait for a jailbrake and get winterboard in there ASAP to change to classic
edit for my spelling - they mac os really hates my english. lol
I think you drew that connection, not me. You also seem to have missed the context. The person I was replying to likened me to a person on a street corner holding up a sign proclaiming the end of the world.
I used the tsunami scenario to point out a danger that many of us actually see heading towards us. The danger is that Apple will lose marketshare because it loses its advantages of usability especially among users new to smartphones. The iOS 6 interface is intuitive for the elderly and toddlers to pickup and use right away not only because of the look but also the feel. Consider the page turn animation in iBooks which even Android tried so hard to mimic. Can you say the same thing for iOS 7? Will the uninitiated be able to pick it up and use it right way or will they be as confused by it as their are with Android and windows Metro?
Apple is losing their advantages by throwing away what they have learned and instead following everyone else instead of being a leader.
For full disclosure, I am a registered iOS developer, a windows developer (13+ years) and a mac user at home since 2002. I started out working on web interfaces for e-commerce back in the late 90's to early 2000's.
In case some of you simply cannot comprehend what I am trying to say, they could keep the ugly icons and that would not be the biggest problem. The biggest problem are the gestures and how the system reacts to your touch. The elastic scrolling with the flick of the finger in the contacts with the Rolodex index worked so perfectly. It was so intuitive for everyone as was the page turn animation and interaction mechanics of the iBook reader.
The problems with the iOS 7 interface go way beyond the lack of textures, depth or ugly icons. The way the UI reacted to your touch was not broken in iOS 6 but it is now. It is now just as crappy as Android. Congrats Mr. Ive, you flushed the UI patents that Apple had worked on over the years down the toilet so that you could look cool to your clueless hipster friends. Hipster ride fixie bikes. Their taste is the antithesis of ease of use.
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It's still a bunch of icons. Very little has changed usability wise. If they were going to be confused by iOS 7, they'd likely have been confused by iOS 6.
I get what you're saying in a lot of ways, but I think this whole situation will level out over the next year. I think they're being dramatic in a rush and once they have more time to look at it and approach it again, they'll get busy really refining it and figuring out what they took away that might make sense to bring back, and what doesn't. As much as there are a lot of glaring issues in the way iOS 7 looks, there's a lot of great stuff in there too. I have faith that they'll work it out.
I just hope to the heavens or anyone who will listen that they don't bring that ghastly Settings icon to Mac OS X in the meantime...
If you're on wifi, try turning it off so you're using cellular data, then check. For both beta 2 and beta 3, this is how the update finally showed up. Once it does, go back to turn wifi on, and the update should still be there and you'll be good to go.
On my iPhone 5, I've had issues with wifi dropping since beta 1, but they seem to be much worse on beta 3. Makes me really appreciate Control Center though. Much, much, much easier now to just flick and cycle wifi on/off and that usually does the trick.
Don't swipe the "SIM-Unlock" slider, just swipe the lockscreen like you would normally unlock your device. The unlock dialog should then appear.
Looks like I'm not the only one then. Maybe their server's are getting hammered?
Hmm, nope still nothing. I guess I will try later, I rather not use my Mac since I rather not do a clean reinstall of everything. It just sits there, Checking for Update...
Ok, update, I rebooted the phone, it is now downloading the update... yay
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