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iOS 8 Screenshot Reveals New Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit Icons
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I'm really excited to start using these new apps. I like that Apple continues to make iOS more and more a power users tool with desktop class applications bundled for free.
Half of the icons in iOS 7 don't really follow the "grid system." You can't criticize the Healthbook icon because..well..it's essentially the currently in-place Passbook icon.
Most likely someone either photoshopped this OR they created blank apps with osx icons and took a screenshot from iOS emulator.
I love how the Macrumors community is just totally convinced that Apple makes icons first and only then starts to engineer the actual software.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
If they add Preview and TextEdit, they might as well go whole-hog and give us a user-accessible filesystem (even if it's just one folder - some generic "Documents" folder).
Tips seems pretty obvious - a kind of user-guide for the iPhone. If the iPhone now needs a user-guide, that would be a real travesty. Steve would turn in his grave if this happened.
Tips seems pretty obvious - a kind of user-guide for the iPhone. If the iPhone now needs a user-guide, that would be a real travesty. Steve would turn in his grave if this happened.
Agreed. Most of these comments are absurd. The guy has a perfect 100% track record. These are legit screenshots of an operating system in ALPHA stages. These apps may not ever be included in a public release.
You mean they don't finalize the icon on the first day of development?
Next you're going to tell me that they leave picking a new wallpaper towards the end of the OS development cycle.
But I didn't even mention Healthbook. In fact, that clearly fits.
I didn't criticize anything in my post.
Even still, some don't (including Passbook, Weather, Reminders - and I'm not sure how Maps follows that grid system..).
Since Healthbook is obviously modeled after Passbook, it makes 100% sense that the icons would be similar.
The Text Edit and Preview icons are likely placeholders (if those apps end up being on the released version at all), and Tips can just be another outlier, like already exists in iOS 7.
I'm wondering what that Tips app might be too.
Could it be all that information that you see at the
Genius Bar made available in that app?
This is a new problem, but how does Apple cancel a product in the future now that they've got people saving files in its own personal iCloud "silo?"
This app is clearly being made for all of those Mavericks users who have been clicking "Save to Cloud" when typing something into Text Edit on their Mac.
I agree with you that Text Edit is becoming useless, but what's the solution here? Kill it off and erase everyone's files? Merge them into Pages? People will complain that Pages is more complicated. Merge them into Notes? People will complain that Notes is too simple.
I don't have an answer here either, but killing old programs is no longer going to be as simple as it has been in the past.
Might be for development, a conduit for "tips"/reporting for in-house development. i concur, it would be very odd for Apple to release a "Tips" app for an "intuitive" OS, although OS X 10.9 saw an introduction of "What's new" for new users so perhaps that's akin to this new "direction".
Oh great, just what we wanted and needed... Yet more and more icons that come bundled on my home screen that I can't get rid of, delete, or hide. At this rate, iOS8 will literally come with 2 full home screen pages of apps right out of the box. More and more apps and icons to clutter your desktop with. Yes yes, I know, there are are folders but that doesn't address the issue; it just bandaids it. On OS X you have the ability to only put things on your desktop that you use frequently are or need absolutely the quickest access for. The rest is then tucked away in Launchpad for use on an as need basis. I'm not forced to have them always on the desktop having to 'manage' them by throwing them in a misc folder while still remaining on my home screen. Why can't we have the same functionality in iOS? Heck make it a setting you can turn on and off in the settings app, that way people can choose what they like the best. Heck both WP7 and Android have employed this feature on their mobile platforms so there is no reason why iOS can't and in doing so also bring more feature/functionality parity between iOS and OS X.
You drew your "grid" on the Healthbook icon, I assumed you were pointing out that it does not fit the grid either.
Unless those grid mockups aren't yours.