Now that I saw your post, I cannot help but see how closely it resembles the power "dots" on the side of my MacBook Pro...
I'm thinking they should have replaced the battery meter with the dots and leaved the signal bars alone lol
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iOS 7 Signal Bars Origin!
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I'm thinking they should have replaced the battery meter with the dots and leaved the signal bars alone lol
Part of my time on this forum is expressing on my opinion on the on the lack of perspective taken by some other posters.
While I agree that Apple has expended a tremendous effort on the finest of details, it is my opinion (not fact...opinion) that whether the signal bars are dots or bars is trivial and unimportant.
I am fully aware that others disagree, and find this an issue of importance...and that is fine.
I find it trivial and beyond obsessive.
Just one man's opinion...
BTW: my comprehension level is generally adequate to comprehend what I read here.
After being on iOS7 for over a month now i real thing the learning curve will be fairly mild. Everything looks different on the outside but once you dive down in to it its really all the same. If you know how to use iOS6 leaning 7 will come pretty naturally. Also somethings in & are much more natural then before. i.e. spotlight search and folders.
I'm pretty sure once the iOS 7 jailbreak releases someone is going to make a tweak that turns the dots into bars.
Then everyone will stop ranting.
Then everyone will stop ranting.
Theres the difference of the dots taking up noticeably more space in the already small status bar. There was no reason at all to go with anything else but bars--it's pretty much an accepted industry standard and it's not only pointless bit even dumb to change them to something else just because (yes, there's really nothing good or useful the dots provide over the bars).How can dots look horrible? I don't see what the difference is between dots and bars other than everyone is used to bars.
As far as change for change sake, if the next iPhone comes out and aesthetically looks like the current iPhone I can guarantee you people will complain. Just like they complained that the 5 looked like the 4S which looked like the 4.
When Apple changes something and people don't like it, they complain about change for change sake, or change for purely aesthetic reasons. But yet when Apple doesn't change something then people complain that they're boring, not innovating, what have they been doing the past year, etc.
How can dots look horrible? I don't see what the difference is between dots and bars other than everyone is used to bars.
As far as change for change sake, if the next iPhone comes out and aesthetically looks like the current iPhone I can guarantee you people will complain. Just like they complained that the 5 looked like the 4S which looked like the 4.
When Apple changes something and people don't like it, they complain about change for change sake, or change for purely aesthetic reasons. But yet when Apple doesn't change something then people complain that they're boring, not innovating, what have they been doing the past year, etc.
As said the dots take up 3 times much as room yet add no functionality.
I hope the dots go away. I dont hate them it just...I dont think they belong in the final version of iOS 7.
But seems to kind of switch back and forth on its own to the dots between locked and unlocked state, at least it did in an earlier beta when I tried it.I would just use the Db meter as well.
Can be applied in iOS 7 as well.
Much more accurate
Right, but then when the phone was locked or unlocked it would switch back on its own a lot of the time (again, at least in a previous beta, and at least for me). So I'd need to tap to change it back again quite a bit, which got somewhat annoying to have to change it so often.
Is there somewhere you have to enable this before you can change it?
I'm tapping and nothing is changing.
I never cease to be amazed at what gets folks upset...dots vs bars!?
Really!?
Nobody seems that upset; they're simply commenting like you. Now there are even people discussing the discussion of dots vs vs bars on a beta operating system for a phone sold by a popular electronics company which isjeez, subsets are infinite!
Reminds me of this XKCD comic: 
For the record, I'm a fan of the bars because they take up less status bar.
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I see you in every thread praising everything Jony Ive has touched. This combined with your avatar makes me curious if you've set up a little shrine for him in the corner of your living room?
Oh god. That doesn't have an reset via email. She'd be screwed
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Now that I saw your post, I cannot help but see how closely it resembles the power "dots" on the side of my MacBook Pro...
Because both have something in common, indicate strength! On Apples style.
Open phone app, dial *3001#12345#*
That will open the Field Test menu, from there you can change it by tapping on it.
To keep the option permanently, even after reboot, when in field test, hold the power button till you get 'slide to power off', then hold the home button for 6-7 seconds till it exits to home screen.
Now that I saw your post, I cannot help but see how closely it resembles the power "dots" on the side of my MacBook Pro...
...Something I miss in my rMBP. That, and the "breathing" light that indicated the machine was sleeping. The way that was machined invisibly into the case was utterly brilliant.
Don't get me wrong, I love my rMBP, it's an awesome machine. But my old 2010-vintage MBP had those little details and a slightly better keyboard.
I purposely avoided the rMBP because I didn't like it as much. And I needed the optical drive.