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iOS 7: 'All the Leaks Are Wrong'

iOS 7 will
- be flatter: WRONG, it will be fatter
- be faster: WRONG, it will be slower
- be better: WRONG, it will be worse
- will improve Maps: WRONG: Maps is just desperate
- will improve Siri: WRONG, let's just remove Siri and use Google Search
- will improve privacy: WRONG, AAPL has joined PRISM in october 2012 and all your data, messages, phone calls are recorded

Cause all rumors are false.
 
bellant94 said:
I think that they should do Instagram intergration!
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A rumor has it that Flickr and Vimeo integration is coming. Instagram may be a possibility given that they already have Facebook integration in place.

Frankly I don't care for the whole social media integration frenzy Apple has been in as of late. Just give me the option to share stuff via the social media apps I have installed and be done with it. Android has had this feature for ages and Apple is only now incorporating it and touting it as if it were some major thing.
 
Erwin-Br said:
I'm not sure, but I read it as in some changes will be so extreme that people will either hate it or love it, no middle ground.
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It's easier than it seems: just make something that Tim Cook loves but everyone hates :)
 
Polarizing?

He should've tried being a bit more vague, cause he wasn't quite vague enough for me.
 
Polarizing Change

I was thinking that in previous years other than last year. the WWDC banners directly featured the apps themselves. What if that's the case this year as well? What if the colorful squares are the app icons themselves? They're just so freakin minimalist that they have no iconography whatsoever and they're just blank colors. This is most likely not true but I thought it was interesting, it would definitely be polarizing!
 
home5.jpgUpdate: leaked iOS 7 and iPhone 5S

Simple. Elegant. Powerful.

Goliath, meet David.​
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I hope everything about a flat design is wrong.

And I hope iPad 5 doesnt take cues from iPPad mini as well, altough Im gonna be really pissed cause I just got iPad 4 because of the rumors.
 
Rogifan said:
Yeah didnt sound like he was told much. I didn't get the impression he was holding anything back. Even Jim Dalrymple seems to be in the dark. I think Cook & Co. were pissed with all the leaks last year and this year are making sure the contents of these keynotes aren't known before they start.
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It might have been "no Mac Pro tomorrow." Hopefully they surprise to the good side (11.6" Retina MacBook Pro - some day, probably not tomorrow).
 
LeandrodaFL said:
I hope everything about a flat design is wrong.

And I hope iPad 5 doesnt take cues from iPPad mini as well, altough Im gonna be really pissed cause I just got iPad 4 because of the rumors.
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Yep. Who wants a thinner and lighter iPad?
 
Flat iOS7 is irrelevant. What's important and currently unleaked are any new functions, features, etc about iOS7. Flat is just a look, a skin.. Who cares? What iOS7 needs is a functional makeover. It's got to be years ahead of android for usability or users will jump to android phones.

OSX needs the same thing.

Combining them? Only in so far as if one wants OSX to act like iOS, as long as its usable as a pro-desktop they can converge. Otherwise, leave OSX for the pros. Maybe an iOS-like simple finder for consumers with the standard desktop a simple option?
 
Well even if it ends up being a giant 7 on a blank screen that fart's siri's rainbows, they gave us one thing we haven't had in a while.. Silent anticipation! :cool:
 
731729 said:
That banner is definitely lacking in flatness.
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I disagree - it's very flat compared to past graphics. The background dots have perspective, but otherwise neither banner displays characteristics from the 2000-2012 Apple look:
-shadows
-glossiness
-embossment
-framing or "discs"
-reflection
-photo-realistic textures/skeumorphism (e.g. leather, linen)

In that sense, it's quite flat. Just a background image and text with a different, skinnier font (Helvetic Neue UltraLight).
 
I really hope we get a files app.. Makes sense with all the airdrop talk? Open 'Cabinet' (Cabernet - get it?) - swipe file to share using airdrop, email, message..

Package 'All my files' from the OS X finder as an app?

:D
 
Eriamjh1138@DAN said:
Flat iOS7 is irrelevant. What's important and currently unleaked are any new functions, features, etc about iOS7. Flat is just a look, a skin.. Who cares? What iOS7 needs is a functional makeover.
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If Apple has proven anything, it's that they understand that "design is not how something looks, it's how it works".

Ive was put in charge of "human interface", not graphic design. In other words, he's not just re-skinning iOS or re-photoshopping the icons. iOS will almost certainly display new graphics, fonts, etc. But if Apple is the Apple I know, they will also tackle various usability issues as well - over-reliance on the Settings app, annoying pop-ups and notifications, repetitive sign-in processes, difficulty sharing content, etc.
 
runeapple said:
I hate the Android UI as a whole, the kindles being the most except able to-date (but still messy).

The thing I hate the most are those three buttons at the bottom, especially the home button, it's like a first grader came along and drew it in paint in 2 seconds… It actually infuriates me (I have no idea why it annoys me that much but it just does) - saying that Google's iOS apps in general are quite pretty, I like Google Maps, Google Now, YouTube and Gmail apps in terms of UI on iOS anyway (not keen on Chrome but then I hate it on the Mac too). Surely it can't be hard for Google to bring that prettiness to Android, but it's as if they want it to be a mess!

It annoys me as iOS has become stale, Android is messy, Windows Phone 8 is actually ok in terms of design(much better than Windows 8 which I hate) but it's not really usable as a smartphone due to it's lack of apps and annoying functionality (such as wifi turning off when the screen turns off). iOS is still the best IMO - and hopefully iOS7 will bring iOS to 2013 (or beyond)!

- I have always hated the gloss on app icons, I actually don't mind some skeuomorphism such as the black linen on app folders but the game centre makes me want to pull my eyes out. Don't like contacts or calendar on Mac or reminds on either.

Anyway I am going to stop writing before I write a book - in conclusion I look forward to tomorrow!
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Agreed. If Android looked like Google's iOS apps then I would likely still be a Nexus owner, however that is not the case instead we have a neon over black interface straight out of the head of a 12 year old.

iOS has its own slew of problems. Firstly I've never really liked the interface much its just too complicated (visually) than it needs to be. I don't need to be reminded that my calendar is a calendar and my note app is a note app, I'm not stupid. It feels highly condescending that nearly everything in the OS is so blatantly designed after what its supposed to be, its not necessary and it creates far too much visual clutter. Functionality wise I don't have many gripes, I wish defaults could be changed and I wouldn't mind some way to manage files even if only in an indirect way (better integrated iCloud/Dropbox or something) and I would like a more robust multitasking method but other than that I have no major qualms with its functionality. However after owning 3 iPhones I've become quite bored with seeing pretty much the same thing for 6 years (visually speaking), I'm a graphic designer so I'm perhaps more bothered by that than most. As a result of the above I currently own/use a Lumia 920 and quite like it.

Windows Phone has some great ideas, in fact if I were to sum the entire thing up it would be just that "a great idea". Its visually quite pleasing (though perhaps too simple is some cases), it functions very well with great performance, its consistant, it has great hardware. However It's problem lies more in its immaturity than anything, as a result of its relative youngness it simply lacks the developmental strength that iOS and Android have had so long to build. The app situation is the best example of this, I wouldn't call myself a big app user but even still its not fun to be left out of almost all the great apps that come to iOS and Android. Its quite depression in fact to read websites like this (or TheVerge, Gizmodo, Engaget, ex...) and be constantly reminded of all the great apps I'll likely never have, or at least not anytime soon.

So at the moment I'm at a bit of a crossroads, I like my Lumia 920 but I miss the apps and general maturity of the major players at the same time I'm not particularly thrilled with Android or iOS at the moment. With WWDC only hours away however and can't help but hope that Apple will do something to sway me, surprise me and even make me fall back into love with iOS. Heres hoping.
 
As ever with WWDC etc, the rumours hype things up. Take your expectations and half them or more! Then, you won't be as disappointed!

That wave on the OSX banner, my initial thought was - a renaming from cats - they've gone through most of them - will OSX be rebranded? OSX Wave - but thats too obvious, or OSX being refresh ( a wave being 'fresh').

OSX 10.10 next year would look odd as would 10.11 etc. Why not just make the break for OSX 10.9.

The banners have always something to do whats coming.. of course, after the keynote, its all pretty obvious.
 
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