Apple Unveils iOS 7 with Major Design Overhaul, Multitasking and Control Center

[Tech198]

AT first the weather app, i thought the same... "They copied Android"

in fact, i even came to the point. I was looking at the Home screen of an Android phone, ...

... that is, till they closed the app, then i realized : "oh, its only the weather app"

Still,,, I can't help feeling about the Android look..... Its does look like it ... I wonder why Apple choose this way in some of their apps ? Is Apple 'hinting' here they actually like want some of the Android features ?

Is this just a start .... ...... (lets hope not)


Cool new Airport Extreme & Express. Now the extreme looks just like a Mac Pro... (A large chunk of cylinder block, or a speaker , whichever you prefer)

 

[apierrec]

At first look, I was not really sold on the interface and differences that are in iOS7. I then watched the introduction to iOS 7 video with Jony Ives and now have a different opinion. It seems much clearer, more functional, easier to use and just all around looking better.

I am now really looking forward to this in the Fall (that and the Cubes brother, the Cylinder Mac Pro.)

I was blown away by the video presentation. I can no longer wait!

 

[Kariya]

Should i have been? Would you have been happier if i was?

Couldn't care less.

 

[radiohead14]

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.

never said it was.. i was poking fun at all those here who are always claiming that android never influences ios.. and that if there are similarities.. apple came up with it all by themselves without looking at the competition.. just look at some of the posts within this thread..

 

[Oletros]

I dunno...the very idea of a touch screen/gesture interface?

Before iPhone
After iPhone[/img]

Please, at least don't post the same wrong pictures another time.

 

[Carouser]

What kind of dimwit looks at what iOS 7 does, finds that it's all useful, but then comes up with "I don't know if I should use it . . . it's not innovative enough."

Normal people buy things for good reasons (like utility or beauty). Only idiots think 'level of innovation' is a decent purchasing criterion. Who gives a @#$%?

 

[astral125]

Has anyone been able to download an ipsw yet?

 

[genovelle]

I know this is a novel concept but... it's free, you know? Why is it a "choose one over the other" thing? How about, I dunno, being able to use both?

There has been a version of iTunes Radio in the iTunes app for years it plays internet radio stations. They now call it radio.

 

[pubwvj]

"New interface design"

Blah. Serious negative to keep changing the interface.

Some of the other stuff is useful improved functionality and that is good. What Apple really needs to add is cross OS and legacy support all the way back to Classic. We need to be able to use our Apps/Applications and data on any device no matter it be a iDevice or a Macintosh. I have real work to do. Managing two different OS's (MacOS/iOS) is a waste. I just want to be able to use my tools on my data. The computer is a work bench.

 

[GerritV]

Really diggin' the Calculator.

 

[StyxMaker]

Idk what you mean by, but it's absolute nonsense to me, of course the iPad has (at least) the same amount of power as the mini!!

It's not a matter of "power", it's a matter of what WiFi chips it's using.

 

[dukebound85]

I dunno...the very idea of a touch screen/gesture interface?

The iphone didn't pioneer touch screen devices

 

[quaternio]

Looks fantastic to me. Many essential improvements look well implemented, and a handfull of curve balls that look great too.

 

[genovelle]

Congrats, you're the demographic with more money than brains that Apple is gunning for.

Since you are clearly a Google supporter, You sound silly making this comment since most of what they do is stolen.

 

[Anuba]

At first look, I was not really sold on the interface and differences that are in iOS7. I then watched the introduction to iOS 7 video with Jony Ives and now have a different opinion. It seems much clearer, more functional, easier to use and just all around looking better.

Yeah, nothing like a British accent and pretentious 7-syllable adjectives to trick you into praising the emperor's new clothes.

 

[Tiger8]

Reminds me of a modern version of Windows 7 (maybe what Windows 8 should have been), mostly because of the translucency.... and I love it. Translucent UI's are awesome, and really do add depth with the modern glass look. I'm glad to see the skeumorphism take a bow and exit.

Windows 7 is hands down the best Microsoft product over the past 10 years! I still have it, refuse to upgrade to Windows 8 (and from the looks of it, everyone else)

 

[Captain-Jack]

As a graphic designer, I'm a big fan of the new look, very clean and crisp. It actually manages to make iOS 6 look incredibly dated already. It's a much more major overhaul than I was expecting, very brave from that point of view given they could have quite easily sat on their hands if they wanted like to most other companies do. If they take a few visual cues or ideas from others, I don't care, other people have good ideas as well, it would be dumb to ignore them, but Apple can beat them on execution.

This was a step Apple needed to take and they've nailed it. Imagine how good this will look on the iPad, can't wait!

 

[runeapple]

Has anyone been able to download an ipsw yet?

The site is down unfortunately.

 

[street.cory]

And exactly what ideas copied?

Here is an idea of what Android was going to be before the iPhone was released. As you can tell it's quite a bit different from what they actually released after the iPhone was unveiled.

 

[thisisdallas]

This is the problem with the way many look at releases like iOS 7 today....

Instead of looking at the device and OS as improvements on the last device and OS in that line, they look at that OS with respect to a completely different OS and say "Ridiculous! Android has had X since 2009!"

When the reality is, the specific task was available in Android since 2009 (and likely through an app on iOS before) when the implementation is different and the overall package/philosophy isn't even in the same ballpark.

Looking at each individual feature and task isn't the way Apple does about designing their OS and devices. Its about how the entire package works and feels TOGETHER. Android is a laundry list of features, some feel cohesive, others look and feel out of place.

Apple designs the OS, not the features that go into it. Whether or not Android had something before (or vice versa - I seem to remember a Game Center look-a-like released at I/O and quite a few iOS like features in addition), the comparison isn't really equal.

You either like Apple's philosophy or you don't. A new version of iOS isn't going to change that because Apple isn't going to change their fundamental philosophy (Tim Cook said so a dozen times during the keynote).

That's why we have Android, and WP8 and BB10.....all different platforms that do the same ****. They just go about it in vastly different ways.

I for one am ecstatic about iOS 7 - I think it looks like the best release of iOS yet and am pumped for when it's released.

I couldn't have said it better myself. As an ex-user of Android, I quickly found that while it "did" those things, the experience of doing it was usually either tedious or half baked. I'm not going to harp about Android, because frankly, I don't care.

iOS 7 is brilliant. I love the overall design of it. It doesn't look like Windows 8, or Android, or BB10. It looks completely new. As they were announcing it, I couldn't find one thing that I was upset or disappointed about. All of the features that I personally wanted (and some that I didn't know I wanted) were released. The only thing I could think to complain about would be choosing stock apps, or choosing keyboards. With the new stock apps, I frankly don't even want to choose alternate stock apps. And the keyboard has always been faster and easier for me than when I was using Swype (or any other keyboard for that matter) on my Galaxy S.

I was perfectly content with iOS 6, but iOS 7 sparked the excitement back into iOS. The stock apps no longer feel like taking a step back into 2007.

I'm so excited to begin using it!

 

[E.Lizardo]

I had a friend who showed me his Android phone. It was working slow so he opened up an app that killed all the other apps multitasking. I laughed and thought that was the dumbest thing I had ever seen for a phone.

Multitasking on a phone remains a stupid thing that will just lead to poor battery life and crashes. The screen is the interface, why would I want to run apps in the background? I am disappointed apple went this route. There just are no good reasons for background apps that have not already been addressed in apples current way of doing mutlitasking.

On 4S battery life has been a constant problem, so I will certainly not be updating until lots of people get enough experience with what iOS 7 does to the battery. Multitasking is useless, and hurting battery and having my phone heat up = double worthless.

And...its ugly. Flat is a trendy word for ugly apparently. We have a gamut of colors and other effects that convey information, but the design Gods have decided what we really want is a lack of information and just bland screens that look like they were developed by Soviet engineers for maximum blandess.

I will repeat what I have said before, the hatred of skeumorphism is an inter-design war that is being fought between a couple of design nerds. It contributes nothing and takes away nothing from the utility of apps, some design nerds just think its gross. So, when they got in charge they go so far away from it that they move into bland land.

Some of the other features look good. But I think the phone has had almost no useful improvements except system search and notification center. Wait, folders were good too.

genuinely curious.What information has been removed by the redesign?

 

[chakraj]

I dunno...the very idea of a touch screen/gesture interface?

Before iPhone

After iPhone

Actually your way off. I had three touch screen devices before the iphone came out, infact this one was out four years before the iphone. Aluminum body, one large screen, central buttons, hmmm. looks like some apple employees may have had one of these, lol...




Hold on, now that I look at it, the flat icons, the fonts, is that ios7 on that imate jam?

 

[morphineseason]

I think it looks nice, but aside from looks, what new features are we getting exactly? I'm jealous that Android/Windows 8 have the ability to snap two+ apps on screen at once. Why can't iOS do that? Instead it's still the same faux multitasking with an interface update. Control Center, while nice, should have been there 2-3 years ago - it's like touting copy/paste as a feature at this point.

The photo app stuff really makes me want a bigger screen on my iPhone 5 too. Looks like a real cramped nightmare navigating some of that stuff. Unfortunately, I think this is the last chance for iOS to pull me back in. I have another year on my contract, and after that I may move on to android (pure blasphemy for anyone that knows me). I really hope this renews my love for iOS though.

 

[Kariya]

The iphone didn't pioneer touch screen devices

No they didn't. Doesn't changed the fact that Android copied what Apple was doing.

 

[quaternio]

The moment when iOS became Android!

Nuff said!

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Only after Android became iOS years back, but who's counting?

Technology is iterative. #dealwithit