All good, best thing probably no need to update apps. This is and always has been incredibly annoying, BUT a) Siri can't understand more than your system language b) doesn't look like they have changed anything about the stupid stock keyboard. This freaking thing has been more or less the same since the first iPhone. Brilliant back then, not so brilliant today.
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Apple Unveils iOS 7 with Major Design Overhaul, Multitasking and Control Center
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The gloss effect is just an overlay provided by Xcode unless the developers have added the gloss in themselves.
Apple could effectively force the binary to remove Xcode gloss effect rendering them flat, as for the rest, you'll just have to pray those developers update.
I stopped using gloss effects about a year ago, looks awful.
I agree. I can definitely look past a few icon designs as long as the iOS runs as smooth as it looks. I'm pretty excited.
No, the very old won't be able to figure out what everything is because of the loss of skeumorphism. Those real world appearances are what help older folks make the connection from real world to virtual world. I think iOS7 is going to alienate a lot of the upper end of Apple's customer demographic.
Just my opinion, but an opinion that comes from teaching my 80 something year old father how to use the iPhone.
My first thought when I saw it was "bubble gum ice cream". That immediately led me to thinking this looks a lot like Android. I think I'll like the new functionality, but the graphics/colors are a real turn off. Perhaps I'll like it more over time. Or maybe I'm just becoming an old fart...
True, but personally, I know I use a lot of Apps that are no longer frequently updated by the developer but are quite valuable to me. With millions and millions of apps, it's going to take a LONG time before anyone's home screen is going to look coherent. When you visit the iOS 7 website they only show Apple's apps - so the new design looks great. It's really, REALLY going to look like crap once it's installed onto someone's phone with more apps though, lol.
What makes you think it's arbitrary?
In fact, it's not. AirDrop requires certain hardware features that the older devices do not support.
I hope Quick Reply comes to iOS. I use Messages on my Mac, but I message more on my iPhone and iPad, so it'll be nice if we get that feature on our iOS devices too.
You don't REALLY believe Android is dead, now do you? Based on iOS7? Or some other cataclysmic event that is going to happen?
I wouldnt board that ship just yet, Im 24 and this UI is too bubbly and immature.
I've been an Android user and I hated the experience. From what I've seen today Apple has borrowed some ideas from Android and I believe has done it better (and definitely prettier). Just because Android might have done something doesn't make it off limits to Apple doing and doing it better.
