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Do you feel they should have a toggle for the old icons?
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So after last night going out and about battery life was horrible(yes i know a beta) so re-installed iOS 6 after almost a week with iOS 7 now.
The old icons look so much better IMO. I am sure there many will agree once iOS 7 is released to the masses in a few months. The old ones actually look cleaner than the new ones other than a couple obvious exceptions.
Everything else about iOS 7 is better though and cleaner looking. That should all stay,keep the new icons as well for the people that like them. Just add a toggle for the old look that many will most likely prefer.
If not, there is always jailbreaking to accomplish this
If you want to customize the way the phone looks, you will need Android for that. Jailbreaking is not a good option, in my opinion, because Mobilesubstrate adds instability to iOS. My iPhone never randomly reboots when it's not jailbroken, but I always had that problem when jailbroken. I'm not particularly enamored with the new icons yet, but adding a toggle would be admitting their new design sucks, which Apple will not do. Apple has never been about catering their design to the customers, it's always been "This is our design, and if you don't like it, oh well." That has always and forever been Apple's motto.
An artist paints something that they find beautiful and that they like, then they share it with others, in a gallery. If you don't like a style of painting, you walk on to the next painting. That's a good, simple approach in my view, and seems to work MASSIVELY well for Apple (people will debate that - people will debate *anything*
)The public don't seem to know what they want, with regard to designed objects, and if they didn't like Mac, iOS or iPhone/iPad, then why are they the gold standards for computing and mobile? For very good reasons indeed - because they are the best, and they Apple don't "ask permission" from focus groups or public surveys - like it or hate it, either way, it works well with very little fuss or confusion, if any.
Because that georgeous girl down the hall has a thing for you in that old tee shirt, dude. She's wild!
Hey now... maybe that'll be Apple's next innovation!
But in all seriousness... it's a silly idea. Apple has positioned and painted themselves as an innovative company. To allow users to switch to an older design scheme seems to directly contradict that.
Plus, giving the option to switch to older icons is like Apple admitting that their design isn't that good or popular. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't... but there's no way Apple is going to admit that.
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I hate most of the new icons too, but obviously the old icons would not go well with the flat look. Even if they did, the chances of Apple doing this is exactly 0, and this is probably the dumbest, most void of common sense thread I've ever read here.
I can see them updating the Photos and Game Center icons since those really look like placeholders. Neither of them tell much about what the apps behind them do.
Other than those two, I actually prefer the newer icons. They could be a little less saturated though. It's almost like they're trying to make an LCD look like an OLED screen.
Other than those two, I actually prefer the newer icons. They could be a little less saturated though. It's almost like they're trying to make an LCD look like an OLED screen.
An artist paints something that they find beautiful and that they like, then they share it with others, in a gallery. If you don't like a style of painting, you walk on to the next painting. That's a good, simple approach in my view, and seems to work MASSIVELY well for Apple (people will debate that - people will debate *anything*
The public don't seem to know what they want, with regard to designed objects, and if they didn't like Mac, iOS or iPhone/iPad, then why are they the gold standards for computing and mobile? For very good reasons indeed - because they are the best, and they Apple don't "ask permission" from focus groups or public surveys - like it or hate it, either way, it works well with very little fuss or confusion, if any.
The only real problem I see is that at least with OS X, you still have the terminal, so you still have the power of the underlying Unix code, and you can still tweak elements of the OS you don't like to an extent or get add-ons to them. i.e. I've had finder tabs with totalfinder for a while now.
iOS has always been about more about Apple's vision of control, and OS X is shifting more towards this unfortunately with every release(i.e. Mac app store) I love iOS and the integration of everything, but there is a side of me that sometimes wishes to break free of the parental control sometimes. At least Google allows rooting of their devices.
Apple is becoming more and more totalitarian, which will turn some people off. Maybe not enough to make a dent in their profits, but it is disappointing nonetheless.