Why would you want Forstall back? Just to get rid of "flat" icons? He gave us crappy maps and Siri that doesn't come close to rivaling Google Now. Plus he let iOS stagnate and Android catch up. Good riddance.
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iOS 8 Screenshot Reveals New Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit Icons
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Why would you want Forstall back? Just to get rid of "flat" icons? He gave us crappy maps and Siri that doesn't come close to rivaling Google Now. Plus he let iOS stagnate and Android catch up. Good riddance.
Simple: OSX is OSX and iOS is iOS. iOS is a long way off being what OSX is...and it will never be. You really sound worked up over something so unimportant.
It's alright, even I got used to it but to a previous poster, Forstall is never coming back. That train has left the station.
Preview in iOS ? :-O
Maybe it sounds crazy. But preview is one of my favorite app's in OS X
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At first I hated it to... But now I actually like it. A mix between the old and the look would be fine. My OCD just hates my phone and iPad no longer looks the same as my mac
Maybe it sounds crazy. But preview is one of my favorite app's in OS X
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At first I hated it to... But now I actually like it. A mix between the old and the look would be fine. My OCD just hates my phone and iPad no longer looks the same as my mac
While Preview and TextEdit would certainly make iOS more productive, it just seems very... un-Apple to make this move.
TextEdit was to OS X what WordPad was to Windows - an incredibly simple and equally handy tool for editing text documents of almost any format. In this sense, it is an essential tool for a desktop operating system, because it can handle documents that are almost the same age as me!
So what motivation would Apple have to 1) alter it's functionality so that it only becomes a 'viewer', thus not making it a text editor at all as the name implies (which is highly unintuitive to new users), and 2) have it present beside Notes, which was ported over to OS X so that a user could sync that text anyway? TextEdit may be something of a relic, but the file system, bite-size documents and compatibility are essential for many users. Dropping it into iOS as a viewer-only suggests that Text'Edit' is used primarily for reading, which is ridiculous.
Pages doesn't come into the equation as far as I'm concerned, because that is primarily a layout application.
As far as Preview is concerned, I have an even harder time accepting this on an iOS device. Like TextEdit, it can be an essential tool for OS X users, but I don't see why Apple would allow PDF files to be spread out between iBooks and Preview.
Of course I may be totally wrong about all this, and supposing this rumour were to be true, then i can only imagine that these features would be replacing existing ones rather than making additions. I've never been a fan of Notes's syncing, so I would be ecstatic to see a replacement.
TextEdit was to OS X what WordPad was to Windows - an incredibly simple and equally handy tool for editing text documents of almost any format. In this sense, it is an essential tool for a desktop operating system, because it can handle documents that are almost the same age as me!
So what motivation would Apple have to 1) alter it's functionality so that it only becomes a 'viewer', thus not making it a text editor at all as the name implies (which is highly unintuitive to new users), and 2) have it present beside Notes, which was ported over to OS X so that a user could sync that text anyway? TextEdit may be something of a relic, but the file system, bite-size documents and compatibility are essential for many users. Dropping it into iOS as a viewer-only suggests that Text'Edit' is used primarily for reading, which is ridiculous.
Pages doesn't come into the equation as far as I'm concerned, because that is primarily a layout application.
As far as Preview is concerned, I have an even harder time accepting this on an iOS device. Like TextEdit, it can be an essential tool for OS X users, but I don't see why Apple would allow PDF files to be spread out between iBooks and Preview.
Of course I may be totally wrong about all this, and supposing this rumour were to be true, then i can only imagine that these features would be replacing existing ones rather than making additions. I've never been a fan of Notes's syncing, so I would be ecstatic to see a replacement.
That is so the user can identity it is a Mac application. The image is not being used as an 'icon' to open the application on the iOS device.
That makes nonsense. Why wouldn't they? It's an internal beta (alpha), they have no reason to out any work into creating an icon yet. And this screenshot could have been taken months ago.
To dismiss this for that reason is just asinine.
Woot more apps I will have to junk folder!
At this rate I'm going to be keeping an eye on how much bloatware crap Apple throws on the next iPhone that I can't remove and have to hide before I purchase the next iPhone. There really aren't any Android phones that I feel I have to have, but this kind of thing is pushing me more into possibly giving one a shot.
At this rate I'm going to be keeping an eye on how much bloatware crap Apple throws on the next iPhone that I can't remove and have to hide before I purchase the next iPhone. There really aren't any Android phones that I feel I have to have, but this kind of thing is pushing me more into possibly giving one a shot.
And even less chance that they will use icons like this, which piss, sh--, and vomit all over the new design paradigm of iOS. These icons could have been welcome in iOS 6 or earlier (but probably not: even the OS-X-alike icons were redone), but no one with even a shred of graphic design sense would believe that these could be the icons for preloaded or Apple-supplied optional iOS 8 apps.
Well now this is interesting... TextEdit? Why in the world would we need that on an iDevice? Let's see, there's Notes, Pages; not to mention the thousands and thousands of third-party equivalents.. Color me intrigued!
A while back, I sent Apple through their suggestions/feedback section that they should have a hands on App to help people figure out how to use iOS. I'm sure I'm not the only one who had suggested this, and I believe that the "Tips" may be the fruition of this suggestion.
Was at the test lab in Cupertino earlier this week and had lunch with some of the guys in Reston this afternoon. Whatever you say bro.
I miss the days when Apple came up with beautiful creative icons. Now they are just amateur trash.