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Apple Shares WWDC OS X Yosemite Video Highlighting Design Changes

SolRayz said:
Hmmm, nice and all but, ahem, will it be stable, fast, and efficient like SL was? Remember SL people? That was the last truly functional and stable OS Apple ever produced.
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IMO it will be as rough as iOS 7 was on launch. Too many changes to the system. There're chances they will fix everything by release date, but I wouldn't bet on current Apple.
 
Has Apple gone back to the old Finder icon? On their website, even on the "Apps" page the old icon appears, though with brighter colours.

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Overall, I think it's a nice UI refresh. Some things aren't as good though. They've made the menu bar icons thinner, and on a 13" MBA, the Wifi signal strength icon doesn't have enough difference between states, so it takes a bit of extra effort to see the wifi signal strength. It's probably due to antialiasing making the thin lines look gray instead of black.
 
This really should be OS XI. It is as drastic a change as was from OS 9 to 10
 
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Its like changing the apple logo, are you going to fill in the bite too?

Change the color, change the gradient, just dont change the whole effing thing.
 
They should make the finder icon smile even bigger. Kind of like this:

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i understand that it will get a presentation of its own later, but itunes needs a complete graphic overhaul to match this
 
the flat look reminds me of osx tiger, which is what i am running on my ancient 12" powerbook. suprisingly, this powerbook is more robust, less kernel-panicky than my mid-2010 15" mbp with the nvidia gt330m. somewhere between leopard and lion to mavericks is making my mbp kernel panic like a twisted computer macualy culkin in home alone. but worst, because there is no happy ending in my version. just panic all the time in the kernel.

ten point ten yoshishammowoowootittydoodoomittymy butt!!!

who cares.

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Sky Blue said:
lol good one
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no its not a good one b/c it looks like a flashback of os x tiger and os x mavericks had a baby!
 
AdonisSMU said:
I like the way Safari Looks on iOS 7 and Mac OSX now. :D
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I understand the idea behind the original Safari icon, a sort of compass for the Internet. But now I find the symbol confusing. There's a compass in iOS. And a compass indicates directionality, which would be more appropriate for Maps. I'm not sure what would be a good substitute (a safari hat?), but I've seen many people new to Apple not even realize that Safari was their browser.

And I agree with others who have noticed inconsistency in Yosemite's other icons. The more realistic ones now stick out like sore thumbs. I'm assuming that all will get straightened out before the release.
 
rocknblogger said:
Agreed, what I don't understand is why OS X icons are still great looking with depth and textures and dimension while iOS icons are just flat simple looking things.
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Fingers vs. Cursors

A Mac can give a 3D illusion and your little arrow just flies around in that virtual space. It starts to feel real.

A tablet or phone, however, is constantly pushing back...brutally reminding your finger that you're tap-tap-tapping on something hard and flat. Touch-screen 3D illusions remain just that: an illusion. And it's an illusion that your fingers are constantly confirming as false. Better to make things look flatter so that it feels like the icons are on the glass. The illusion of a "living magazine" is the better goal there.
 
Icon inconsistency

Can anybody explain, why would they introduce iOs-like icons for most applications (such as Safari and iTunes) while some pretty much stay the same as in Mavericks (e.g. Mail and Messages)? I am sure people gonna find good arguments for one style or the other, but I can't see why they would go with such a mix of styles? Does anybody have an explanation, I am really confused...?
 
Let me re-iterate on this :

You guys hate Windows 7 , but you like 10.10 ?

The transparency is all over, even looks more so than windows 7, since now in 10.10, since the transparency includes the window too, and so everything scrolls under it..

i guess that loos cool, but really no practice advance except uses can now see through the title bar to see what they missed.

ok,, it does look kinda neat, but still "too much transparency in general"

They did it to iOS 7 all over.

Apple had Touch ID, integrated it into iPhone 5s, and a year later now in the iPad's (probably).

Same thing here ..... Apple like something, they adopt it everywhere, even if allot of users may disagree like me.... While one person may not always matter, lets not forget, I did get a FREE iPhone 5s, only because i wouldn't shut up to Apple about it.... :)

(Personally i recon they just did this because they knew they couldn't do anything else.)

It does work for MY advantage at least..

Maybe i may get used to 10.10, or at least i'll try it out....
 
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