Who cares. If he actually thinks it sucks so much he can create his own OS etc and I'm sure there will be hoards of folks that will clamor for his faux felt etc. He'll be a billionaire overnight
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Who cares. If he actually thinks it sucks so much he can create his own OS etc and I'm sure there will be hoards of folks that will clamor for his faux felt etc. He'll be a billionaire overnight
And most of those users will update and go on with their lives as they don't obsess over software interfaces on their phone.
What I expected:
Past icon design: 2D, abstract
Current: 3D photorealistic
Future: 3D photorealistic animated
What we got:
Past icon design: 2D, abstract
Current: 3D photorealistic
Future: 2D, abstract
For a brief time we had an animated settings icon with rotating gear (during update) and it looked badass. I thought it was a sign of things to come. Even though I switched to Android just recently I still thought Apple still had the upper edge in icon design. I don't think that anymore.
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Aside from being being an apparent hyperlink for the AppleID field I don't understand the complaint about functionality.
Language/Time Zone gives a pop-out menu to select language and time zone.
The Reset Data button with an > *shockingly* slides to the right.
I understand your point and almost agree, since I didn't notice that the Apple ID field is a hyperlink, but then I went to the "old" icloud page and I couldn't tell there either that the Apple ID was a hyperlink, so...
Your opinion, and you are welcome to it. A few folks might agree with you but its doubtful all do. I certainly don't. There are a couple of icons I think could be better and I'd be happy to see a different font used for accessibility reasons but I disagree that any of this is fugly, different yes but not horrid.
Most of my issues are functions rather than appearance. Such as I don't see from a functional point of view why there's still a built in weather, stocks etc app. There's tons we can download for free. Kill it and remove the bloat, let us get them if we want them. And so on
ewww those first two screenshots make it look like windows 2000 or something
edit: lol or is that your browser skin?
ooopsUh, you do realise that iOS7, OSX 10.9 and iCloud will all be using the same theme... when it's actually, you know, released, right?
As Steve Jobs once said "Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works".
Or said in another way — It is wrong to separate what design looks like from how it works. Not looking or feeling good will affect how a piece of design works.
For the love of all that is Holy, I hope not. This new design is, well, nasty.
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You must be blind because these new stick figure icons are Atari 2600 quality....
Exactly! But some folks here don't care how things look - they just want something new, even if it sucks.
This whole UI redesign exercise reminds me of the "New Coke" disaster. Sometimes things are just perfect the way they are...
ewww those first two screenshots make it look like windows 2000 or something
edit: lol or is that your browser skin?
Yeah it does look fugly without many tabs open - I have updated the screenshots just for you
Also when did the yahoo logo change?
This. Apple has been increasing sales of iOS devices with the "old" icons and such and it's been working. They do need to worm on features and such but this is just a nasty redesign. The whole Skinny Fonts, Huge Fonts, and lots of Whitespace is not design. It's a cop out. It was a cop out when MS did it and it's a cop out when Apple does it.
I've never once said Apple needs to change iOS - the previos incarnation was fine. Heck, Android is still a "row of icons". Windows Phone tried something different and it's fail city for them too.
How does the look of an app icon affect how the application works? Plus I thought most people here moved all their default Apple apps to a never to be used again folder (because they all use Google apps and can't delete Apple's). S if you never use them and they're tucked away in a folder who cares what the look like.
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Just shows that skeuomorphic or flat most people don't really give a toss and will update to iOS 7 and get on with more important things in their lives.
I have access to it and an outlook.com account. It looks like Apple copied the look of Outlook.com wholesale. How sad.
I hate the flat look. It looks dated rather than modern. We had the flat look back in 1999-2000 when windows 2000 and Windows Me came out on windows. Apple needs to stop following and start leading again.
I would like to see the Apple board offer Time Cook an ultimatum, either he accept a demotion back to COO or leave the company. He is a great supply chain guy but he lacks vision and taste.
Maybe Scott Forstall or Avie will be asked back to take the CEO position.
Jony needs to go back to hardware design and he needs someone at Apple with the balls to call him on his bull poop sometimes. Not everything he comes up with is gold. I'm sure Jobs acted like a filter on even what Ive was doing and that some of his designs were vetoed in the past.
I hate the flat look. It looks dated rather than modern. We had the flat look back in 1999-2000 when windows 2000 and Windows Me came out on windows. Apple needs to stop following and start leading again.
I would like to see the Apple board offer Time Cook an ultimatum, either he accept a demotion back to COO or leave the company. He is a great supply chain guy but he lacks vision and taste.
Maybe Scott Forstall or Avie will be asked back to take the CEO position.
Jony needs to go back to hardware design and he needs someone at Apple with the balls to call him on his bull poop sometimes. Not everything he comes up with is gold. I'm sure Jobs acted like a filter on even what Ive was doing and that some of his designs were vetoed in the past.
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Does everyone here have a developer account? I just tried logging in and was told that was required. Oh well, getting closer to release at least.
That trash icon looks too realistic, it needs to be remade by a 1st grader, then it will fit right in
Funny, I've not used any Google apps on my iPhone. Gmail comes in Mail and I use Apple Maps - never had an issue with it.
Will they? Or will they update, hate the look and clog Apple Stores and the Internet wanting to go back? Look at how well massive UI change is working out for Microsoft with Windows 8.