skewmorphism (however you spell/say it), has been around since 1983 with the Apple Lisa, then the Mac and on....it's about time for a change to this now dated look. You're looking only at the icons and not at the overall interface (you said parallax is useless??), unless you are on an older phone where it cannot be fully implemented, I happen to really like the new look (on iPhone 5), it's more dimensional. People that luv the old look, say it looked better, but, to me, it was always cartoonish/fakey, looked airbrushed, the design elements didn't work together so well, more competed with each other for attention. The simpler design of the icons is a much better looking design. The "frosted glass" translucent layered effect, that works with the background, does much more for me than the fake 3D look of the old icons with airbrushed shadow to appear to "float" over the flat background...which really does look old, after using iOS 7 for weeks now.
...You are the only one who's apps are working perfectly fine, I have several that crash on startup, and others that do not work quite right yet. Perhaps you are only using the pre-installed apps? I could also give a list of bugs/quirks with the built-in apps, but won't.
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