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iOS 7 Concept Features Widgets, New Lock Screen, Mission Control and More
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not if you get that random guys version that is more than likely completely different and utterly fugly. You gotta stop assuming that every rumour is the real deal.
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Great job MR for posting trash concepts. All the negative nancy's on here are thinking it is the real thing. Way to go MR, you should have known better!
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maybe they will, remember they said it is getting a major overhaul aka nothing like this trash concept you're currently viewing.
This is actually really bad from a user experience point of view. Lots of functions are hidden from plain sight, and a lot of unexpected/inconsistent interactions.
dont really like it. it needs a big UI overhaul first to attract consumers.. not some extra options to reduce number of taps to get done something 
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pardon me ..but you joined about 5 months ago to experience this?
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You've summed it up quite accurately. Apple is like a religion to the masses that worshipped Steve. The new spaceship building, their temple. Just look at how many say his "vision" should be built no matter how high the cost overruns.
If one looks into the archieves here you'll find literally thousands of posts (prior to the emergence of the iPad mini) declaring a smaller 7" iPad would be completely irrelevant, a total failure.
One that would never be built. One they would never buy. One that Steve said Apple would never build.
This hypocrisy rich environment never ceases to amaze & entertain
pardon me ..but you joined about 5 months ago to experience this?
Seriously, you have to be joking. Are you THAT simple? Just to quote you:
"Isn't it a bit funny that widgets were supposedly useless and unnecessary on Android and now they may be included on iOS? Anyway, I find it amusing."
Whats your "source"?
Obviously you cannot quote one single person who spoke out against widgets back then and is loving them now. your whole "isn't it... blabla" is irrelevant.
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Here's a better idea:
Use the additional 176x640 screen area on the iPhone 5 (and new iPod touch) to put a semi-permanent widget bar on the top of the screen.
Since all iPhone apps can run a the 4/4S resolution without modification, the widget bar could be visible at all time without interrupting or obscuring the active app.
You could switch between widgets with a simple horizontal swipe on the bar. But most importantly, the widgets would be in fact minimized apps that could be expanded into their full version with a simple downward swipe on the widget bar.
A three fingers swipe down would bring a full screen "list" of those rectangular widgets which would also display live info in this mode and bring quick access to some system settings.
Use the additional 176x640 screen area on the iPhone 5 (and new iPod touch) to put a semi-permanent widget bar on the top of the screen.
Since all iPhone apps can run a the 4/4S resolution without modification, the widget bar could be visible at all time without interrupting or obscuring the active app.
You could switch between widgets with a simple horizontal swipe on the bar. But most importantly, the widgets would be in fact minimized apps that could be expanded into their full version with a simple downward swipe on the widget bar.
A three fingers swipe down would bring a full screen "list" of those rectangular widgets which would also display live info in this mode and bring quick access to some system settings.
How many times do I have to tell you guys that IOS 7 has NOT even been handed out to us ADC Members yet, and then once it is handed out to us there will be at least 6 or 7 Beta's before a GM Seed comes out this Fall 2013 with the IPhone 5S, as the Beta is usually NOT even handed out to us ADC Member's until Opening Day WWDC, get it through your thick heads that you are NOT going to see IOS 7.0 until Fall 2013 with a Fall 2013 IPhone 5S Release! Just FYI!
Hey its Android! Apple should set aside millions of dollars for all the lawsuits Google will throw at them if they do any of this. I still cant believe they didnt get sued over the blatant notification bar copy.
One small thing I hope they fix is when you get a notification right when you are just trying to unlock your phone. Say you pull it out of your pocket and you get a text, swiping either the text or the standard lock will both take you to the text because it's "fresh." That was fine before they implemented the ability to swipe the text itself to take you right to it, but now if I am trying to do something else I have to either swipe and hit to home button to get the text out of my way, or lock the screen and hit the home button to get a swipe that takes me to the normal start screen. It's a relatively minor thing, but I feel like that should have been fixed ages ago because (at least to me) it's super obvious.
can we see your concept video then?
yeah...thought so.
Com on, you don't have to be a designer to give an opinion about a design.
I do without even owning any. Great way of tracking exchange rate movements and following the world's most important indices.
If this is all Ive has up his sleeve, ill be disappointed. And I'll probably move on, because android is moving faster than this. But knowing Ive's past accomplishments, I very much doubt this is all his team has come up with. This video presents some decent improvements to iOS, but it's not exactly forward thinking.
Not to say I could do better though, congrats to the mr or mrs who made this video. It's some solid ideation.
Not to say I could do better though, congrats to the mr or mrs who made this video. It's some solid ideation.
dont really like it. it needs a big UI overhaul first to attract consumers.. not some extra options to reduce number of taps to get done something
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pardon me ..but you joined about 5 months ago to experience this?
Really? A big UI overhaul but no new options will attrack new customers? I should think most people who actually use their phones as a helper in their lives would appreciate reducing the number of taps to get something done. I feel I can say this based on the number of folks who moved to Android and WinPhone 8.
I purchased a Nokia 920 a few months ago and I love the live tiles. I can see my appointments for the day, the current weather (the tile then flips and gives me a 5-day forecast, live info from many news/sports sources, Facebook and Twitter (although I don't use these), and many more. I actually rarely have to open an app to get the top level info I need to organize my life.
Since I don't have an iPhone I don't care (although I would love it on my iPad) but I'm not so self-centered to assume that many others wouldn't. If these ideas really had no backing jail breaking wouldn't be of such high interest.
I worked in software design and development for close to 30 years. The most important thing I learned was that just because I didn't want an option didn't mean many others didn't need it.
Luckily for you (and possibly for us all) he works with/for Apple already.
He's been with them since around iOS5. Hopefully they implement some of his work alongside Apple's aesthetic.
People should also realize this is just a CONCEPT video. In no way connected to Apple. Save your "If this is what Apple is doing" comments because we won't know anything until around June.
Bring on the major visual overhaul guys, I'm waiting. In Ive we trust
We just need live tiles/icons on the lock screen like windows phone has and then live icons on the other screens then we wouldn't have to tap the screen so much.
Toggle Bluetooth from Homescreen
There are lot of APPs available doing that. Just look for them...
There are lot of APPs available doing that. Just look for them...
Widgets would be sweet; Dashboard widgets have been largely ignored which is a shame, as I still find many of them useful, but if they made a proper return to iOS then we might at least expect the same treatment in OS 10.9 or whatever version comes after that (10.10 sounds weird).
All widgets really require is a lightweight version of Webkit that's sitting just behind the scenes waiting to spring into action when something relevant happens such as an event or a user touch, then it just fires up the widget code and displays it. Slap on an API for iOS style GUI elements and another so widgets can communicate with proper apps (or background tasks more specifically) and you've got yourself a nice new framework. Port that back to OS X but with less restrictions (since Dashboard has more space overall) and you're onto a winner.
I love the pop over style widgets in that concept though, that is absolutely what I'd like to see. While Facebook Home is interesting, I don't know if that's how I'd personally want to use my phone; but a widget that I can pop open or, ideally, toggle on/off for my home screen would be ideal, as it would give the same basic capabilities, but leave it entirely up to use what data widgets we toggle open for each of our home screens.
All widgets really require is a lightweight version of Webkit that's sitting just behind the scenes waiting to spring into action when something relevant happens such as an event or a user touch, then it just fires up the widget code and displays it. Slap on an API for iOS style GUI elements and another so widgets can communicate with proper apps (or background tasks more specifically) and you've got yourself a nice new framework. Port that back to OS X but with less restrictions (since Dashboard has more space overall) and you're onto a winner.
I love the pop over style widgets in that concept though, that is absolutely what I'd like to see. While Facebook Home is interesting, I don't know if that's how I'd personally want to use my phone; but a widget that I can pop open or, ideally, toggle on/off for my home screen would be ideal, as it would give the same basic capabilities, but leave it entirely up to use what data widgets we toggle open for each of our home screens.
Does anyone else find it sort of ironic the constant calls for iOS to have "an overhaul"
Usually when software companies change the UI drastically, 90% of the users go mad. Just look at Facebook! "Why change what isn't broken!" "Arghh I can't do x,y,z now" "I don't know what im doing with this "
I only need to look at the averages users reaction to the last version of iTunes, they HATE it. All it did was hide one menu, which you can get back with one click of a button, I wonder how these people will react when their iPhone is completely different?
And different how? Android is still a bunch of icons, with the option to had widgets on the home screen. If Apple do that they'd have to seriously think about battery usage and limiting it so, stupid user 1, doesn't full 8 pages of widgets which makes his battery last 30 minutes. Be interesting to see if they'd open it up to devs as well, and what limitations they'd put on them.
But thats all a different story. Sometimes I wonder what people want when they say "an overhaul" I don't expect it because the usability of iOS is excellent, and its far more logically laid out in most cases than Android. I don't expect iOS to go radically different and employ flat design like Windows Phone 8 - why would Apple follow Microsoft!
I guess the people asking for "an overhaul" have no idea what they want, they want different, for the sake of it being different. I guess Steve was right - people don't know what they want until you give it to them.
Usually when software companies change the UI drastically, 90% of the users go mad. Just look at Facebook! "Why change what isn't broken!" "Arghh I can't do x,y,z now" "I don't know what im doing with this "
I only need to look at the averages users reaction to the last version of iTunes, they HATE it. All it did was hide one menu, which you can get back with one click of a button, I wonder how these people will react when their iPhone is completely different?
And different how? Android is still a bunch of icons, with the option to had widgets on the home screen. If Apple do that they'd have to seriously think about battery usage and limiting it so, stupid user 1, doesn't full 8 pages of widgets which makes his battery last 30 minutes. Be interesting to see if they'd open it up to devs as well, and what limitations they'd put on them.
But thats all a different story. Sometimes I wonder what people want when they say "an overhaul" I don't expect it because the usability of iOS is excellent, and its far more logically laid out in most cases than Android. I don't expect iOS to go radically different and employ flat design like Windows Phone 8 - why would Apple follow Microsoft!
I guess the people asking for "an overhaul" have no idea what they want, they want different, for the sake of it being different. I guess Steve was right - people don't know what they want until you give it to them.
Getting better but still boring in my opinion. Nothing really new and the interface still looks like a 2007 phone.