If iOS is boring then I don't know what android is. It's the same clunky, un-organised bloated and menus I don't know what to say about them. Icons or ugly as well
Only about 17% of android users upgraded to ICS and that OS was released a year ago now we have another Micky name jelly bean where only some users will get upgrade. I will rather have a boring OS than have a device I bought where I'm still waiting for upgrade to a OS for my expensive android phone.
As others have said, this is an iOS discussion and not a monkey **** fight of Apple vs. Android. There are plenty of other threads to complain or gloat since if you have one device you must hate all others.
My take on this question, I've dealt with the iOS platform before it even gained that moniker when I bought the original iPhone and followed the upgrade path to the 3Gs. I also have a current generation iPod Touch and iPad 2.
I will admit that the OS itself to me looks a little long in the tooth. Through the various releases over the years, nothing really visual was changed aside from being able to see your wallpaper behind your icons on the 3Gs and jailbroken earlier hardware. The other major leap was the addition of folders.
Still, the grey look & feel do feel a bit dated IMO. That being said, I do own a Android phone running ICS and a BlackBerry Bold 9700.
One neat feature of the BlackBerry OS I liked was themes. You could change every aspect of the UI and even add or change controls if you dig deep enough with the theme itself. If anyone here used the classic Mac OS and remembers Kaleidoscope, it was very similar and could give your Mac desktop a complete overhaul at the click of the mouse.
There are other theme utilities out there for the iPhone to theme the OS elements, only if you have jailbroken your device.
From an Android standpoint, the best overall look and feel is on the HTC Sense devices from the older Sensation to current models. The animated weather effects along with the wallpapers are neat but also battery hogs. So I use a still photo. Not to say it can't be done on an iOS device from the iPad to the iPhone etc. I doubt Apple would go that route.
One thing I thought that looked nice was to move from the light greys to perhaps a glossy looking black appearance (along with the keyboard as a choice). It would give a fresh look but for a white model, it may look weird. Perhaps why Apple has stuck with the neutral greys and other controls, buttons etc.
Hopefully down the road, Apple may change things up a bit but the neutral look also does help battery life in a technical sense. On a standard LCD panel, a full black image draws more current than displaying white (allowing the backlight to show through). On most Samsung Android handsets that use a AMOLED display, the opposite is true where showing a full white image draws more current than black as those showing black are essentially "off" and it's the most common reason Samsung Galaxy S phones use darker overall themes compared to other Android phones. OLED displays are more efficient on battery life but it's still a young technology compared to a LCD.
Nerd technobabble aside, it would be nice to have a native theme system for the iOS. Even if it only allows you to change the system font or common colors displayed in Safari or Mail.app, even iTunes I imagine would be welcome features.
PS.
All this said above may get me called a "fandroid" (clever...
) or a hater as of recent days due to she madness going on.
I'm a fanboy of technology, period. I like to see things evolve instead of users taking sides and defending their choice to a bloody end. Sure, I carry a "forbidden" Samsung device. Is that worth hating me over it despite the fact that most know little or nothing about me.
Put down the torches and pitchforks people and perhaps these boards can be a great place to talk tech or even a few Q and A's.
