Let It Go
I wish everyone would just stop whining about iOS 7. You literally cannot read a single news story about iOS without someone chiming that they REFUSE to upgrade, and that everything Jonny Ive did was wrong, etc, etc, ad nauseam. Honestly, it's like having a conversation with my grandfather. The fact is that all users have differing preferences about how they like to interact with their computers. The OS may not be everyone's cup of tea, but for the most part, it was designed with a lot of forethought. What I'd like to see Apple do is give users a bit more control over the look and feel, much like what is possible on the desktop. And that's been lacking in every version of iOS from 1 to 7. I'm not suggesting that they allow an Andriod-like free for all, but for example, simply the providing the ability to resize the icons and spacing grid would a be welcome change. If Apple let users have a few more tweaks, I'm betting they'd encounter a lot less consternation when it came to interface changes.
In terms of specifics, though, I think the problems with iOS 7 are relatively far between. Adding Wifi access to Control Center, for example, seems like an unfortunate oversight that's easily correctible. My only real beef comes in Music, which I find to be wholly unnavigable. The track names are difficult to read and frustrating to scroll through. The Play/Pause/Skip buttons are far too small and inconveniently reached, even on the larger screen of my iPad. And the fact that there is no way to navigate tracks with any sort of multitouch gesture seems to defeat the entire point of a touch-based OS. It is literally impossible to play music in the car, navigate it, and drive safely. (In comparison to an iPod Nano, where one could feel the button or simply shake-to-shuffle without ever taking one's eyes off the road. Not completely hands free, but tremendously better than glancing down to fumble with a touch screen.) Aside from this, though, I think the rest of iOS 7 is sound as a pound. So Mr. Ive, if you're reading this, thanks for the hard work and please fix the Music App.
I wish everyone would just stop whining about iOS 7. You literally cannot read a single news story about iOS without someone chiming that they REFUSE to upgrade, and that everything Jonny Ive did was wrong, etc, etc, ad nauseam. Honestly, it's like having a conversation with my grandfather. The fact is that all users have differing preferences about how they like to interact with their computers. The OS may not be everyone's cup of tea, but for the most part, it was designed with a lot of forethought. What I'd like to see Apple do is give users a bit more control over the look and feel, much like what is possible on the desktop. And that's been lacking in every version of iOS from 1 to 7. I'm not suggesting that they allow an Andriod-like free for all, but for example, simply the providing the ability to resize the icons and spacing grid would a be welcome change. If Apple let users have a few more tweaks, I'm betting they'd encounter a lot less consternation when it came to interface changes.
In terms of specifics, though, I think the problems with iOS 7 are relatively far between. Adding Wifi access to Control Center, for example, seems like an unfortunate oversight that's easily correctible. My only real beef comes in Music, which I find to be wholly unnavigable. The track names are difficult to read and frustrating to scroll through. The Play/Pause/Skip buttons are far too small and inconveniently reached, even on the larger screen of my iPad. And the fact that there is no way to navigate tracks with any sort of multitouch gesture seems to defeat the entire point of a touch-based OS. It is literally impossible to play music in the car, navigate it, and drive safely. (In comparison to an iPod Nano, where one could feel the button or simply shake-to-shuffle without ever taking one's eyes off the road. Not completely hands free, but tremendously better than glancing down to fumble with a touch screen.) Aside from this, though, I think the rest of iOS 7 is sound as a pound. So Mr. Ive, if you're reading this, thanks for the hard work and please fix the Music App.
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