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iOS 8 Screenshot Reveals New Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit Icons
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Yeah, Im totally with you - the reality though, is shared resources, or any sort of hardware with potential privacy concerns will likely continue to have an explicit authorization confirmation (heck, even the microphone requires it now...)
Its just one time anyway, I figured if I install the new Noteability, and it pops up a Allow Noteability to access your Documents Library? one time, and as a result I get interoperability between my preferred text editor/markup app and all my existing docs (not replicating them, actual collaborative editing), Im good with that
Pages is only sort-of free.
That is, it's free as long as you opt to install the whole Pages/Numbers/iPhoto/Find My Friends package when iOS is first installed (only have to do this once per account), but otherwise it is not.
What would be the point of TextEdit - a simple text editor - when you already have exactly that, called Notes? Also what's the point of Preview, an app that only views image files, when you can already view image files in iOS using the built in Photos app, and PDFs using iBooks? What's the proof of this being legitimate anyway?
Argh, that is an excellent point and so frustrating. Where is the common "ground"? Pages is overkill, and Notes [for some] is too simple. Honestly, I find myself using Notes and Reminders for similar things. Perhaps make Notes a more robust app, like TextEdit, to differentiate it more from Reminders? Either way, this seems a new dilemma for Apple post-Jobs' era of "simplicity".
The answer here is to remove the bloody silos that files are stuck in within each apps. iOS is beginning to feel like a bunch of disconnected messes. iOS is actually becoming more and more cumbersome and getting more counterintuitive as time goes on. App silos just aren't how people work. When people work on a project, they keep all files for that particular project in one folder all together so they can review the files and keep up to date with a particular project all at once. If I standardly use 7 files of varying file types for a typical publishing process and I'm running out the door and need to check to make sure I have everything I need, I don't want to have to sit there and open up and go into and out of 7 different apps to check on the files I need for 1 bloody project. Let me put all the files for that project in one folder all, all files for a project all together. I look in one folder glance to make sure I have what I need, then off I go. Please Apple, don't be so hell bent on 'simplicity' that you actually making it MORE bloody confusing than all the other 'confusing' mobile OS's you polk fun at for being 'confusing'.
I think the real question is, why would Apple bring TextEdit and Preview to iOS? What does Preview actually offer? How is TextEdit any different than Notes or Pages? Heres what I think. I think those apps are not even related to Preview or TextEdit. For all we know, they could just be calling them that to maintain secrecy and the real apps once you launch them are something completely different. It would be a really smart way to use placeholders and prevent whatever they are actually making from leaking out, because people will just assume the apps are Preview and TextEdit.
No, Grids were taken directly from iOS 7 files. I was just seeing whether it fitted or not, and forgot to take it off when I saw it did. My mistake.
Most of the icons in iOS 7 do fit the Grid in some ways, but most are usually subtle. Again, all I did was question the Tips concept and icon, not criticize it in any way. In fact, I think these could be legit (or just a very well done mockup).
And in case you're wondering, here's Maps. Again, subtle, but still there:
Because OSX (and I’d assume if it existed, iOS) Preview handles a ton of formats outside of image and PDFs. Various document, spreadsheet, presentation formats, vector images, etc. I would be nice to have an iOS utility that would handle just about every format you might have stashed out in the cloud, even if it’s “read only”.
Not trying to get into an argument here - genuinely curious. I honestly do not see any correlation between the lines of the grid there and the design of the Maps icon. There's no balance (top bottom, left right), none of the lines meet up, there's no symmetry. I just don't see it
At least for me
I know that HealthBook, VoiceMemos, and Tips will go directly in the "Extras" folder where I put stuff I don't use. Elsewhere it was suggested that Preview and TextEdit were going to be viewers only and if true they'll likely go in there too.
I know that HealthBook, VoiceMemos, and Tips will go directly in the "Extras" folder where I put stuff I don't use. Elsewhere it was suggested that Preview and TextEdit were going to be viewers only and if true they'll likely go in there too.
can't they remove J. Ive and his team from the UI design of IOS ? People on dribble or else propose far better alternatives...
Why? I'm pretty happy with the iOS7 UI design. Is it perfect? No. But no version 1 product in the world of tech ever is. I have confidence it will be refined and improved over time, just as most of Apple's products have.
I seem to disagree with many here. I'm thrilled to finally see TextEdit make it to iOS. I use it regularly on the Mac to take notes, and I was very disappointed not being able to take those notes on the road on my iPad.
Not trying to get into an argument here - genuinely curious. I honestly do not see any correlation between the lines of the grid there and the design of the Maps icon. There's no balance (top bottom, left right), none of the lines meet up, there's no symmetry. I just don't see it
I know; it may seem like nothing fits, but in very subtle ways it does.
In the bottom-right corner, the top of the yellow road lines up with the bottom line of the Grid. The white road also touches the edges of the middle circle of the Grid.
I really think the Grid is underused by Apple, to the point where you just can't notice it. Even with the Grid overlayed, you can't really see much correlation.
