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Did Steve Jobs work on iOS 7 ?

Did Steve Jobs work on iOS 7?

  • Yes

    Votes: 33 11.3%

  • No

    Votes: 218 74.4%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 42 14.3%
  • Total voters
    293
This question is way too narrow.

If we assume Apple has a 4-5 year road map laid out, like most companies, and knowing that Apple launches a major iOS upgrade with each new iPhone generation, then it's conceivable he had some discussions about it. As for input on the design language, I highly doubt that.
 
TheRainKing said:
I doubt it very much.

I bet Steve would describe it as tasteless junk.
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I'm sure he'd approve the color pallette.

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For reference iOS 7 only started being made after Forstall was sacked. Apple had got so much grief over iOS 6 and the disaster that Maps was they had no choice unless they wanted more bad press. This would have affected sales.
 
I highly doubt he worked on iOS 7 just judging by the half assed stock apps and icons. They, for the most part, look unfinished. They were probably thrown together within this past year.

Is there an option for "hell no"?
 
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Armen said:
People also seem to forget Steve Jobs was just a human being.

Remember this?

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The Newton was pre-Steve. It was one of the first products he killed upon coming back to Apple.

He viewed that as Sculley's baby, but it sure laid the groundwork for the iPhone.
 
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Armen said:
People also seem to forget Steve Jobs was just a human being.

Remember this?

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Steve had nothing to do with it!

EDIT: Would Steve have approved of iOS7? It's a difficult one. The ONLY person who can answer that would be Steve, and he's not here. In some ways he may well have done. Steve and Ive were very close, both in terms of design ethic and as friends. Steve also liked changing things drastically. Think about the look of Mac OS X over the previous Mac OS and you'll completely understand that he had no issue with making that kind of jump.

Interestingly OS X lacks a lot of Skeuomorphism but IIRC the person responsible for the Aqua UI was Scott Forstall....
 
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The question's too broad. Any half ass CEO will have a product road map and be involved in product design several years before it's released. iOS is most likely no different. Jobs was most likely involved with every product that Apple is currently offering and probably the next iterations or 2 as well.

If the question is really targeting the changes iOS7 made to the icons/colors/etc, then probably not. That probably only came about after Scott Forstall left the company and that was after Jobs died. However, Jobs probably was involved with other aspects of iOS7. At the least, it was probably on the road map when he was alive and they probably had broad discussions about what the changes would be.

It's kind of funny how so many people on the forums just know exactly what Jobs would have said or thought about current products if he were alive today.
 
He had nothing to do with the current iOS7.

He probably stimulated Forstall in regard to the previous iOS7, which was chucked out in November after Forstall was fired.

Forstall was slowly changing iOS. He didn't believe that a major point of a release should be "COMPLETE REDESIGN".

Take a look at iOS6 Passbook, Music on iPhone as an example of Forestall's planned iOS 7 direction. Music app in particular is amazingly beautiful.
 
Risco said:
For reference iOS 7 only started being made after Forstall was sacked.
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I have no clue why people assume that. We know Ive went in and made them put a fresh coat of paint on top but there's no way they waited until Forstall was fired to start working on iOS 7 (and especially switching to 64-bit architecture). There just wouldn't be enough time.
 
bozzykid said:
I have no clue why people assume that. We know Ive went in and made them put a fresh coat of paint on top but there's no way they waited until Forstall was fired to start working on iOS 7 (and especially switching to 64-bit architecture). There just wouldn't be enough time.
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It is known that the physics engine was developed by Forstall.
 
mslide said:
The question's too broad. Any half ass CEO will have a product road map and be involved in product design several years before it's released. iOS is most likely no different. Jobs was most likely involved with every product that Apple is currently offering and probably the next iterations or 2 as well.

If the question is really targeting the changes iOS7 made to the icons/colors/etc, then probably not. That probably only came about after Scott Forstall left the company and that was after Jobs died. However, Jobs probably was involved with other aspects of iOS7. At the least, it was probably on the road map when he was alive and they probably had broad discussions about what the changes would be.

It's kind of funny how so many people on the forums just know exactly what Jobs would have said or thought about current products if he were alive today.
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And that pretty much leads to </thread>.
 
who knows for sure.

my guess as others have said here that SJ had voice in the roadmap of the company's products. Probably thinking of Parallax too, and when you use parallax and skeumorphosism (sp?) they might look strange on teh phone...perhaps the idea was to go a simpler route...maybe not all WONKY colored and Super-Saturated though.
 
I guess you can only use your intuition on a reply to this, but seeing as he always wanted that 'magic' quality, my gut tells me no. Not saying iOS7 isn't more advanced than iOS6, it doesn't have that quality feel that he seemed to want to reach.

He probably would have thought of something to satisfy wall street while not alienating the fans at the same time pushing the platform forward. Maybe it would have been more of a transition over 2 versions, instead of a bomb dropping iOS7.

I doubt the UI would be what it is now.... In fact I'll say this, I bet no one would have had the testicles or ovaries to show him a version of iOS7 that looks like what we have now.
 
One thing is for sure, he will definitely have nothing to do with the slimmer and bigger screened iPhone 6 that will basically become iOSDroid.
 
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