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iOS 7 Concept Features Widgets, New Lock Screen, Mission Control and More
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Quite pointless. You can show any existing OS, or concept, and tout it as an example of what Apple could do with iOS.
I would really like to see the glass icons to be done with. The shine or glare that they use on the stock apps looks bad. Maybe Jony Ive thinks the same and will just take the glare off of them.
The thing is sometimes you dont need to use full functionality of an app. You just need to use a portion of it. It is very useful. You may not like widgets but a lot of people find great use in them.
I have an android phone. I'm not too big on them. I only use the weather and google widget. But some of my friends have loads of widgets.
Android does all of that and in much better ways. LAME!!
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What planet are you on. Android Widgets are much better than this. This is sort of like Samsung's Mini app idea on Android, which I don't like either. Very lame. Sorry but iOS is lame, old and retarded compared to Android and WinPhone8. This is yet another example of trying to tack on more modern features onto something never designed for it in the first place. OS is more like a Palm Pilot than anything else. Android at least took it a couple steps forward, but is still app-centric. I prefer WinPhone for being more people-centric.
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Agreed. It's stupid and it's not at all how widgets work on Android as someone said here. This is lame.
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Right on!!!
Android Android Android Android Android Android Android Android OK we get it you love your Android. Most ppl in this thread don't care how it's done on android. I been there and done that and will not be going back to android.
Depends on if he trademarked or copyrighted any of the ideas contained within. And even if he did, he'd have to prove that...
A. They're unique enough Apple couldn't have come up with them on their own, and...
B. That the video was posted long before Apple started implementing any of the ideas.
Plus...
C. Since everything within either plays off or expands upon features both Apple and Google both use elsewhere, there's not much he himself could do about it. Mission Control? Widgets buried inside the folder view? OS controls accessible from the notification center? We've seen those in other places.
...though he could get them on the implementation, but then you'd have to consider A. again.
My understanding is that this is not Apple's list but regardless I saw some things I liked and those that I didn't like.
I like the reply to text feature early in the video and I like the ease of activating airplane mode as well as the update style for the app store.
However, I don't really care for widget mode (hopefully that will be disable-able (making that a word). I also don't really get the point of shelf when you already seem to have left newsstand intact. They seem to be redundant and I know most people already dislike newsstand.
Personally, I like newsstand because I get my daily newspapers from there but I know very people who like that and I think this is just going to irritate them further.
I like the reply to text feature early in the video and I like the ease of activating airplane mode as well as the update style for the app store.
However, I don't really care for widget mode (hopefully that will be disable-able (making that a word). I also don't really get the point of shelf when you already seem to have left newsstand intact. They seem to be redundant and I know most people already dislike newsstand.
Personally, I like newsstand because I get my daily newspapers from there but I know very people who like that and I think this is just going to irritate them further.
Trademark doesn't apply at all. And for copyright to apply, Apple would have to directly copy actual code (which doesn't exist). So no. He could do nothing if Apple simply took everything from the video. They won't though.
Trademarks could apply to the icons, and some of the "look and feel" aspects of it.
...which are mostly based around Apple's core designs for iOS, so even then there's not much he could do.
...which are mostly based around Apple's core designs for iOS, so even then there's not much he could do.
The smart software people that took three shots at iOS to innovate both copy and paste features?
That's trade dress, but it would have to acquire secondary meaning since it's not inherently distinctive of anything, and this random youtube user isn't exactly a brand at the moment. There are simply too many hurdles here for him to acquire any rights in the material(Besides the video as a whole. Apple can't run the video as an advertisement or anything) for the foreseeable future.
Not to mention, as you said, the design of the icons and such are pretty much just taken out of Apple. If anything, Apple is the one with the rights here.
I agree with anyone who said these don't look to be a huge overhaul of iOS.
While some features would be nice, I think the general consensus is that the look and feel of iOS is becoming boring.
The iPad looks to be especially boring. I've still yet to know why for a tablet, there's so much wasted space as the icons are so small and boring. If MS could be creative and utilize the screen real estate to allow for attractive and informative tiles, I'm sure Apple can do something towards that direction.
Hoping for a nice and unexpected change from them soon.
While some features would be nice, I think the general consensus is that the look and feel of iOS is becoming boring.
The iPad looks to be especially boring. I've still yet to know why for a tablet, there's so much wasted space as the icons are so small and boring. If MS could be creative and utilize the screen real estate to allow for attractive and informative tiles, I'm sure Apple can do something towards that direction.
Hoping for a nice and unexpected change from them soon.
