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iOS 7.1 Beta 4 Tidbits: New Slide to Unlock/Power Off Animation, Dialer Updates
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Then you should be all for iOS 7.1. Making things better means perfecting what's there, not blindly introducing new things and changing existing things. One has practically nothing to do with the other.
same with the lockscreen. the "delete" text is way hard to hard to reach and not so easy to touch, why can't they just add a delete icon a small round button with x on it in the right side and a phone icon on the left for the emergency call.
Indeed. There's a lot of people around here who've never designed anything worth the pixels its displayed on in their entire lives who think they're better than the guy who makes the most popular handset in the world, saved Apple from bankruptcy, and has propelled Apple to a new Christmas quarter sales record. I guess being successful triggers its share of small-minded critics.
He's doing it all alone overnight? Lol that's borderline exaggeration. Most likely he decides what he wants, the teams do the heavy work and he hold the final authority to approve.
But i get your point.
That's actually Apple's problem. Johnny is practically in charge of the whole company engineering team.
Why put the heavy burden on one Johnny? Find some decent UI engineer. Let johnny stay in hardware design. And maybe Apple can start making better products and less buggy software.
There's only so much tasks one person can work on. Let poor johnny focus on what he's good at.
7.1 has thousands of behind the scenes improvements that will make it better and more reliable. MacRumors simply lacks the talent to discuss any of them and focuses on the one or two shiny changes. Fixing bugs and perfecting things is far more important than the power off UI which nobody ever uses, but you can't tell MacRumors that- they get their clicks from the shiny.
I believe this is Scott Forstall's work.I know. If only we could have this back. This is proper UI design.
To be honest with you, I miss Scott Forstall and his design. There was nothing wrong with iOS 6.
Will the Fanboyz condescending tone never end - they picked this tone up from the Apple execs.
So you think Apple doesn't have any designers besides Ive? You know he's the lead designer, not the only designer, right? You have absolutely no proof that Apple isn't run exactly as you describe, you are just making up nonsense.
As for your nonsense about Ive staying in hardware- hardware/software integration has always been Apple's strength and the buck has always rested with one person. It used to be Jobs, now its Ive. That doesn't mean he decides everything himself, but by symbolically running both sides software knows they are expected to act as if they are on the same team as hardware. When Jobs was ill Forestall temporarily tried to pull in the opposite direction and it didn't work.
"Slide to unlock text"
why can't they just change the font color to completely white and not getting color in the background, i mean its going to be more readable to the stupid people who don't know how to unlock ios in years they are using their device than having a weird shine animation that will be highlighted and exaggerated when you touch the screen. it was like "hey, you idiot should slide this way to unlock" i'm not complaining on how iOS change but they should focus on changing the main UI and not in having more options in accessibly it's just that messages icon is the emboss because of the darker gradient, but the camera app is not updated having lighter gradient making it flatter, and icons like calendar is completely flat. while the notes app still has the texture though it's icon is already flat.
why can't they just change the font color to completely white and not getting color in the background, i mean its going to be more readable to the stupid people who don't know how to unlock ios in years they are using their device than having a weird shine animation that will be highlighted and exaggerated when you touch the screen. it was like "hey, you idiot should slide this way to unlock"
i'm not complaining on how iOS change but they should focus on changing the main UI and not in having more options in accessibly it's just that messages icon is the emboss because of the darker gradient, but the camera app is not updated having lighter gradient making it flatter, and icons like calendar is completely flat. while the notes app still has the texture though it's icon is already flat.When you're talking to people who use childish words like 'Fanboyz' a little condescension is more than appropriate. Kids can't pick up subtlety and understand little except the tone.
I believe this is Scott Forstall's work.
To be honest with you, I miss Scott Forstall and his design. There was nothing wrong with iOS 6.
This may just be me, but I kinda didnt like using apps that looked like old tape players. Id rather my Star Trek level communications device look a little more Star Trek and less vintage.
That may be a double standard, though, since I cant get enough vintage in my video games.
Way to not address any of the big things everyone's been complaining about that make iOS7 a miserable pain the butt to use, and instead add unnecessary animations to bad ideas. Sticking with iOS6, which, while running on coal, runs faster and lighter on an iPad mini than 7.
iOS8 better be the "black" rev.
iOS8 better be the "black" rev.
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-hires-iphone-jailbreak-developer-2011-6
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/26/apple-hires-jailbreaking-iphone-hacker-nicholas-allegra/
As far as hiring iOS jailbreakers, that is some info to back up my claim.
In the jailbreaking department, this website: http://www.idownloadblog.com/tag/jailbreak-apps-tweaks/
It goes to show you how people who work on UI actually know what they're doing. Jony Ive, an undisputed genius in industrial design, is completely clueless about software design (he needs to be demoted to just hardware so that he can focus on what he does best and let an actual expert in UI design take over). It's like when basketball legend Michael Jordan tried playing professional baseball, just because you're good at one thing doesn't mean it will translate well into other areas.
That is only what people have noticed, it's not an official change. All the main changes are in the code you can't see. There could be and would be hundreds of improvements and changes, and just because you can't see them doesn't mean this update is all about an unlock slider.
So naive...
In contrary. I thought Johnny is the chief of thousands designer and engineer in Apple campus.
That's why booyahbooyah's post was ridiculous. Johnny doing the work alone overnight?? ROFLMAO
What does he think of Apple? A small underdog startup in which Johnny work on his garage tweaking for something big and revolutionary for the good of mankind?
You want to laugh? Laugh at the quoted post. I'm not spitting nonsense.
Except that quite a few big things have been addressed: better OS stability, faster/smoother animations, potentially somewhat better battery--things that are more important than colors or icons or things of that nature.
Right.. because all skeuomorphic designs are that ugly.How about the original iBooks app? It looks a lot better than the crap they replaced it with in iOS 7.
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What are you talking about?! There was nothing vintage about iOS 6.
iOS 6 felt 3-dimensional, it felt real. I didn't have to guess what was a button and what was just a plain text, or what was selected and what wasn't.
Look at this mess and try to figure out:
What do you see in the first column, Paid apps or Top Grossing apps?
How about now:
What do you see in the first column, Paid apps or Top Grossing apps?
Control Center
Whats the argument for NOT having a Location Services on/off switch in Control Centre?
Am I the only one who sees this as a huge missed opportunity? Or would Apple rather keep being a little sketchy about battery life/saving battery?
Either they want you to have a hard time accessing one of the most used features, and by default many people will turn Location Services on and leave it on while diminshing battery. Or they just goofed and totally missed that this might be useful, without having to go into settings, then scroll down to privacy, click location services, click on. Doesnt that seem silly to anyone else?
Whats the argument for NOT having a Location Services on/off switch in Control Centre?
Am I the only one who sees this as a huge missed opportunity? Or would Apple rather keep being a little sketchy about battery life/saving battery?
Either they want you to have a hard time accessing one of the most used features, and by default many people will turn Location Services on and leave it on while diminshing battery. Or they just goofed and totally missed that this might be useful, without having to go into settings, then scroll down to privacy, click location services, click on. Doesnt that seem silly to anyone else?
The better way to approach battery savings for location services would be to customize which apps can and cannot use location services to begin with. Between configuring per-app usage and system-wide usage settings, location services being enabled or disabled should have a negligible effect on battery unless you are explicitly opening an app that has location awareness enabled (i.e. google maps, etc). If something is activating your location services in the background, then the culprit is an app or systemwide setting that is doing that (meaning something that can be turned off if it's not something you want draining your battery). Very few things can enable location services in the background in the absence of your explicit permission (and thus willing acceptance of the battery life hit required).