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iCloud.com Beta Gets iOS 7-Inspired Makeover
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Wonder why the Pages, Numbers, and Keynote icons are still iOS 6-styled? And if this is the future of OS X, it will be terrible.
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Lettering is TOOOOO GREY. Visually it looks cool but the lettering needs to be darker. on the calendar that is...
Lettering is TOOOOO GREY. Visually it looks cool but the lettering needs to be darker. on the calendar that is...
That's so it can actually FIND your phone!
(kidding...apple maps never been an issue for me)
The only thing more pathetic than complaints about icons is the fact that I read page after page of them.
Don't you feel stupid!
Reading all of the complaints is almost worse than having to look at Apple's new GUI designs. 
And if Microsoft hadn't been so stupid as to remove the start button or easily allow people to boot in to the desktop a lot of those complaints would not have existed. iOS 7 functions much the same way iOS 6 did. You still have the home button and home screen as an app launcher. If people don't upgrade or leave for another platform becaus they don't like the design then that's what people will do and Cook can demote or fire Ive.
Awfully familiar looking. Perhaps Microsoft's Outlook.com inspired their design? I was, -beginning- to consider this new design phase, however some things are just better left alone.. The problem with the flat look is the fact that: its plain. It's actually okay to have a little skeuomorphism in an interface. It keeps it interesting and quirky. I hope OS X misses this phase.
Wrong.
When you go to iCloud.com and enter your credentials, it does not ask you for the 4-digit security code.
I like the new look. A minor objection is that it is a tad light making it a little hard to read. I also don't like the amount of red used in the calendar app.
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Please don't let that theme spread to OS X
I agree 100%. I like the toned down, muted look of say 10.6. I don't want it bright and flashy. Give me a nice classy, non distracting gray with some transparency.
On that note, I wish they just pulled more design cues from Mac OS X to iOS instead of going for this flat thing. It would have been a less jarring face lift.
They're trying to mimic Steve Jobs, who was known for getting worked up over the tiny details.
All this cloud stuff is great but it still leaves a lot to be desired. Mail should let you use your own domain/accounts instead of forcing @me.com and they should have some dropbox-style filesystem where several users could have access.
I've always liked them because they are very representative of what each do or are for.
My guess is that we will see updated icons when the new version is released.
Apple can't afford a Miss right now. They have to hit a home run. If you look at it from a marketshare perspective, unfortunately they are not keeping pace. If you look at it from a profit perspective, same thing. They need to make this one stick and stick hard. I don't see a crappy me-too stark design hitting it out of the park.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
It's an Archive button by default. You can go into the settings and change it to a Delete button.
Attention to detail is what made Apple great. Unfortunately, those days are over and iTunes 11 was the first harbinger of things to come followed by iOS 7.
Steve would never have approved such boring, cheap and cold looking UI work - he knew the value of creating an emotional bond with a product. How can I feel any emotions looking at WHITE with text in a few different colors?
With OS X and iOS 6, I have always been smiling about the small quirky things they have added to the GUI - it was human and it showed that someone cared about the user experience. Now we have minimalist, flat robo-design done by a stuck up Brit...
I am not impressed from what I saw of iOS 7, but the top half of this screen shot looks quite OK to me. I hope OSX gets the 'flat icon' makeover (but not the color gradient mess) as well. A minority opinion, apparently.