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iPhone Does anyone else not like the new "dock"?
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The dock is honestly the only part of the new design that bothers me. It instantly reminded me of pre-Leopard OS X, which, uh, is kind of a confusing feeling. "Oooh, aaaah, look at all this new stuff ... O HAY, 2007, LONG TIME NO SEE GURL HOW U BEEN" 
I wish the dock would look like that, it looks great this way! Much cleaner and minimalist.
The dock is honestly the only part of the new design that bothers me. It instantly reminded me of pre-Leopard OS X, which, uh, is kind of a confusing feeling. "Oooh, aaaah, look at all this new stuff ... O HAY, 2007, LONG TIME NO SEE GURL HOW U BEEN"
That's EXACTLY how I feel!
Only stared at the dock properly this afternoon and mine does have some translucency on the 4S after all.
Problem is that on an almost black wallpaper it's barely noticeable looking more like it big grey bar.
It needs to be made more translucent I believe.
How'd you get yours so transparent? I'm running an iPhone 5 so it's not a hardware limitation.
Its only the icons that make iOS 7 look unprofessional, the rest looks classy and profesional. Its such a shame Apple messed them up.
There's the dock too. Too much white space in a lot of the native apps and really small and thin icons within them that are not all that nice looking. Using words for buttons in various places isn't the smartest or nicest thing either for a touch device that is more visually based.
Yeah, open any of the apps in the dock on the 4S and there's a little lag near the end of the animation. Move the same app out the dock, it's smooth.
It'd like to see them replicate Control Center for the dock, just a thin black line separating the icons from the main home screen hovering above the main 4 you have in there. No actual "physical" dock so to speak.
CC has a transparent/blurred background, it looks like a distinct object just liek the dock.
Yeah, but I think a physical dock is just a waste on this design. Just use a dividing line.
Although how did the person above get a transparent dock or is it a mock up ?
A diving line wont be visible on a busy wallpaper. On Apple's site the dock is transaprent. If yours isn't its a bug.
If you can see through it it is transparent. You can have both tranparency and translucency.
Translucency is a subset of transparency, so you can't have translucency without transparency. I was responding to WeggieMac who asked why his dock wasn't transparent. You're just nitpicking because I pointed out the weird inconsistencies in the iOS6 icons.
It's not 100% transparent. It's got the same effect as CC. It blurs to the colour of thr wallpaper behind it. There's no fine detail, just a blurry version of the colour the wallpaper behind it is.