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I liked the look of iOS 7 until I installed it...

Opposite reaction to the OP here. I thought it looked too "girly" when I watched the keynote but after using it for the past months, I've come to really love it.

Whenever I interact with a phone running iOS 6 (rest of family), it seems so comically chunky and outdated and heavy.

So, to each their own!
 
Needless to say, at first the public will have their doubts regardless of what the new system has. However they will adopt and like it quickly.
 
MetalMatt24 said:
ios7 is damn aweaome
No need to jailbreak anymore
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I haven't jailbroken my idevices since I got my iPhone 4. I might jailbreak my iPhone 5 once it's available for iOS 7, you know why? I find it ugly, iOS 7, I want to replace the icons, the dock, the cellular signal, simple things like these...
 
nheilweil said:
Opposite reaction to the OP here. I thought it looked too "girly" when I watched the keynote but after using it for the past months, I've come to really love it.

Whenever I interact with a phone running iOS 6 (rest of family), it seems so comically chunky and outdated and heavy.

So, to each their own!
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But do you think that your Mum or Dad will be able to use iOS7 with the easy they use iOS6?
 
Consumers will love iOS 7. All consumers regardless of age, sexual persuasion, race, creed, species. All will love it.

I spoke to an 82 year old grandma last night who was coincidentally running the iOS 7 beta on her iPhone 5 and she said she had no problems picking up the new User Interface. She said she was finding the new experience to be refreshing and quicker to use. And she couldn't wait for the gold master to be released. She's a complete technophobe who can hardly master the TV remote to change channels on her television. But she grasped iOS 7 immediately.

So there you go. Anyone who claims iOS 7 is too complicated or difficult to use is just plain wrong. I have proven it.
 
Looks good to me, simple. I like things simple, it's a phone.... not a lifestyle.

My only gripe is that it looks absolutely horrendous on a black iPhone. Why even bother to still sell them if this is the OS it's paired with.
 
dumastudetto said:
Consumers will love iOS 7. All consumers regardless of age, sexual persuasion, race, creed, species. All will love it.

I spoke to an 82 year old grandma last night who was coincidentally running the iOS 7 beta on her iPhone 5 and she said she had no problems picking up the new User Interface. She said she was finding the new experience to be refreshing and quicker to use. And she couldn't wait for the gold master to be released. She's a complete technophobe who can hardly master the TV remote to change channels on her television. But she grasped iOS 7 immediately.

So there you go. Anyone who claims iOS 7 is too complicated or difficult to use is just plain wrong. I have proven it.
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She can't master a tv remote but eagerly waits for the gold master of ios7. Ok. I suppose she can't wait to jailbreak her phone also.
 
JohnnyW2001 said:
I just timed myself. It took me 60 seconds to read the original post. Aren't you ashamed that you can't read for 60 seconds?
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Perhaps a more concise OP would have been a better solution in the beginning to avoid such problems, yeah?

Less it more, especially with internet forums.

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Paddle1 said:
If you've used iOS before it's easy to use iOS 7, but if you haven't it's less simple now.
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That's kind of like saying that cars are less simple than they used to be. Doesn't mean they aren't better. It's called evolution! Sometimes it's good and sometimes not so much, but we all have to deal with it.
 
I agree with you.

iOS7 is:

1- Uglyer:
I'm an architect and I know a lot about minimalism, i really hate skeuomorphism and love minimalism, but they have just made it wrong.
The whole system is heterogeneous and each icon, app, and menu seems to be designed by a wall separated team competing to make it worse in its line.
If designs are different we have more to assimilate, that's the opposite of minimalism, less is more. The whole system design needs a homogenization process. Less concepts please.
Most icons are hard to look at..

2- Harder to use:
We have more layers on springboard (notification center, springboard, mission control and app switcher... c'mon you can resume... just make two. One swiping from from the top and one from the bottom or so..), notification center has three pages, they write down the weather instead of putting an icon.. c'mon... It is ANNOYING to read the weather.
Safari icons are hard to see and understand and they know it, they fixed settings icons that were alike.
White apps HURTS my eyes in the night, and for me it's more an idealistic design than useful, shades of gray where a lot beautiful and eye friendly, they need to low down the contrast and i'm not saying to go back to aluminum like colors, just the use of gray or dark gray.

3- They are losing apple's soul and copying others. Helvetica is a windows font and it is ugly!!

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dumastudetto said:
Consumers will love iOS 7. All consumers regardless of age, sexual persuasion, race, creed, species. All will love it.

I spoke to an 82 year old grandma last night who was coincidentally running the iOS 7 beta on her iPhone 5 and she said she had no problems picking up the new User Interface. She said she was finding the new experience to be refreshing and quicker to use. And she couldn't wait for the gold master to be released. She's a complete technophobe who can hardly master the TV remote to change channels on her television. But she grasped iOS 7 immediately.

So there you go. Anyone who claims iOS 7 is too complicated or difficult to use is just plain wrong. I have proven it.
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I showed iOS7 on my iphone to my grandma, that uses an ipad and an iphone everyday and she simply told me "WHAT A HORROR". So you haven't proven anything.
 
pedrofan said:
I showed iOS7 on my iphone to my grandma, that uses an ipad and an iphone everyday and she simply told me "WHAT A HORROR". So you haven't proven anything.
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Some people will love it, some people will hate it, some won't care a bit either way. Nothing to "prove" guys.

Personally, I find it silly that so many people are freaky passionate about what the stupid icons look like.

Bet your grandma will adapt in spite of the horror of it all.
 
Tammster said:
Some people will love it, some people will hate it, some won't care a bit either way. Nothing to "prove" guys.

Personally, I find it silly that so many people are freaky passionate about what the stupid icons look like.

Bet your grandma will adapt in spite of the horror of it all.
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Put something more beautiful, simpler and easier to use in front of her and she will send apple to trash.

That was the magic potion that took apple to the place it is, but it seems that they have forgotten it so quickly after Steve's death.
 
pedrofan said:
Put something more beautiful, simpler and easier to use in front of her and she will send apple to trash.

That was the magic potion that took apple to the place it is, but it seems that they have forgotten it so quickly after Steve's death.
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I think it's much more beautiful and easier to use (all the feedback I'm getting from my family/friends is extremely positive) so I hardly think the "magic" is gone. Every time I turn on my phone now it makes me happy. :)

Again, opinions will differ but I don't know a single person in my circle who would really care one single bit about the icons. When I told my husband how some of the techie people are flipping out so much about it he laughed.
 
pedrofan said:
The whole system is heterogeneous and each icon, app, and menu seems to be designed by a wall separated team competing to make it worse in its line.
If designs are different we have more to assimilate, that's the opposite of minimalism, less is more. The whole system design needs a homogenization process. Less concepts please.
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That's it, exactly. Each app is doing its own thing. Calendar works differently from Reminders and Photos/Camera Roll is doing something else and Notes yet another thing... It's a whole lot more UI that you have to deal with.

Tammster said:
Again, opinions will differ but I don't know a single person in my circle who would really care one single bit about the icons.
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The icons have gotten much more than their share of attention. I don't like most of them, but they are hardly the worst thing about iOS 7. The true problem is with how complicated the UI has gotten. All these layers zooming in and out feel extremely busy, and I find that the parallaxs effect make me feel literally dizzy. The amazing part is that they must have known it has that effect on some people, because they put the setting for turning it off in the Accessibility section! So you deliberately build something that has a detrimental effect on some people -- just so it looks more pretty? Or is there a practical aspect of parallax that I'm missing? There's just something fundamentally off about this philosophy -- it's like looking pretty is more important than being functional.

I love Ive's hardware designs because he makes things that are supremely functional while managing to make them beautiful. In his first foray into software, I think he's lost sight of what makes software functional, and pursued only beauty.
 
Night Spring said:
The amazing part is that they must have known it has that effect on some people, because they put the setting for turning it off in the Accessibility section! So you deliberately build something that has a detrimental effect on some people -- just so it looks more pretty?
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Funny, we complain when they give us options (I actually love the new effects) and then we complain when they do not. Having said that, if it is really making people dizzy (I don't get it... but accept it's true for some people) maybe the default should be to off with the option to switch on.
 
Tammster said:
Funny, we complain when they give us options (I actually love the new effects) and then we complain when they do not. Having said that, if it is really making people dizzy (I don't get it... but accept it's true for some people) maybe the default should be to off with the option to switch on.
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Well, I personally never complained about the old iOS, as I liked that a lot. It just seems like people are complaining both ways, but I think it's mostly different people doing the complaining. Do it one way, one set of people complain, do it the other way, another set of people complain. The overall effect seems like people complain no matter what you do, but individual people aren't really being inconsistent.

As for parallax, I don't mind having to turn it off, but it just baffles me as I don't see any functionality to it. All it seems to do is make things look more pretty / interesting. I just don't see why anyone would want to spend the effort to build it in the first place. It just doesn't seem to do much of anything, other than make me dizzy.
 
doug in albq said:
A 12 year old kid is way more tech-savvy than a 6 year old or even a 10 year old and also a 70 year old. I have a 12 year old son, and he knows almost as much about iOS and the web as I do...and I am an app & website designer and website developer!
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Don't let that slip out at an interview.
 
dumastudetto said:
Consumers will love iOS 7. All consumers regardless of age, sexual persuasion, race, creed, species. All will love it.

I spoke to an 82 year old grandma last night who was coincidentally running the iOS 7 beta on her iPhone 5 and she said she had no problems picking up the new User Interface. She said she was finding the new experience to be refreshing and quicker to use. And she couldn't wait for the gold master to be released. She's a complete technophobe who can hardly master the TV remote to change channels on her television. But she grasped iOS 7 immediately.

So there you go. Anyone who claims iOS 7 is too complicated or difficult to use is just plain wrong. I have proven it.
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So that somehow means everyone will love it, or even like it? Yeah...
 
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