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iOS & OS X UI uniformity

Carl Sagan said:
Don't see what the big deal is, iOS 7 is sublime and would work exceptionally well as a desktop operating system. Bring it on I say, one OS to rule them all!
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iOS Nickelodeon is nothing more than 4-bit colour from the mid-80s.
 
Icaras said:
The trash can looks funny but I know that's the same icon used in iOS 7. :p

But wow, that really looks beautiful. I love the simplicity of it all. At least to me anyway, those iOS 7 icons fit just perfectly. I really like the simple OS X icon for Finder, as well as the Downloads icon. And maybe it's grown on me since I've been using iOS 7, but the Safari icon actually looks really good there.

As for photos, assuming OS X get it's own basic photo storage app, I doubt that iPhoto will get the same icon, since there is also an iOS version to consider.

By the way, what app is that icon with the waterdrop?
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It's ink, not a water drop. It's Pages icon.

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djtech42 said:
When you click that "Quit" app in the dock, does it quit the current application? If so, that's really cool!
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It quits all opened applications (the ones that have the light below them). I hate closing down one by one...
 
pedrofan said:
No, I just made my own selection of icons. You can find all of them in google but not toghether.
Finder icon is mavericks logo instead of an ugly face for example #
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Uh, excuse me? The Finder icon is legendary and it's what makes a Mac's desktop identifiable. Apple better not ever take that icon away. I love the Finder icon. I just can't see them doing that.
 
HenryDJP said:
Uh, excuse me? The Finder icon is legendary and it's what makes a Mac's desktop identifiable. Apple better not ever take that icon away. I love the Finder icon. I just can't see them doing that.
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Agreed. I just want them to remove the gloss, like this:

Finder Without Gloss.png
 
HenryDJP said:
Uh, excuse me? The Finder icon is legendary and it's what makes a Mac's desktop identifiable. Apple better not ever take that icon away. I love the Finder icon. I just can't see them doing that.
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Okay, it is my selection! You can put whatever you want in yours :D

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djtech42 said:
Sorry to be off-topic, but how does that work? Did you just develop an app that uses the sudo kill command?
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It is an apple script encoded as an app with my own logo. I love it!! I can't live without it!
 
Exactly

Xe89 said:
Urgh... OS X is fine the way it is. It's simple, grey and easy to use. I like "flat" interfaces when it is done right, like on Windows Phone. Yes, say what you want about Windows Phone's lack of apps etc. but they got the design right. But flat does not in itself equals easy and well designed. iOS 7 is an over designed mess. They hide behind market speak like "content over chrome". Thing is they just replaced the "skeumorphism" with other distracting elements like Vista-esque glass and weird animations.
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I could not agree more. I was hoping that the MacPro would come out before 10.9 but I'm afraid it won't. I'm also afraid that it will be a complete mess - i.e. IOS 7 look-alike.
 
Cougarcat said:
The iOS 7 UI is designed for retina (despite the existence of of the non-retina mini.) There's too many thin lines in the iOS 7 interface that I don't think would work well on non-retina Macs.

I think (hope?) that the few vestiges of Aqua that are left, though, are on their way out. I wouldn't be surprised if 10.10 looks largely the same, but has new buttons, progress bars, and chat bubbles. But a full redesign I don't expect anytime soon.
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You're right. Those 1px thin lines look ugly on non-retina screens.
 
I get GM yesterday and I'm quite disappointed about internal non-uniformity.

e.g.
There's no more skeuomorphism in calendar, address book and notes but it's still there in game center and reminders.
Just why?
 
humar said:
I get GM yesterday and I'm quite disappointed about internal non-uniformity.

e.g.
There's no more skeuomorphism in calendar, address book and notes but it's still there in game center and reminders.
Just why?
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Because Apple doesn't give a **** about QA anymore, otherwise iOS 7 wouldn't have been released with the same sorry ass issues as 10.9. You are now a perpetual beta tester for features that will never be completed. Welcome to the future of computing.

-SC
 
ScottishCaptain said:
Because Apple doesn't give a **** about QA anymore, otherwise iOS 7 wouldn't have been released with the same sorry ass issues as 10.9. You are now a perpetual beta tester for features that will never be completed. Welcome to the future of computing.

-SC
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This is so sadly true.
 
Hopefully they will introduce more iOS uniformity in updates. They don't seem to be pushing that hard to get it all done in one go if you look at the pace of Apple's own iOS apps being updated.

If they don't I expect that they will save it as OS X 10.10's big thing. (either way the haters are on to a loser though...)
 
bobbba said:
Hopefully they will introduce more iOS uniformity in updates. They don't seem to be pushing that hard to get it all done in one go if you look at the pace of Apple's own iOS apps being updated.

If they don't I expect that they will save it as OS X 10.10's big thing. (either way the haters are on to a loser though...)
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That's supposed to be: will introduce more OS X uniformity on both the computer and mobile platforms.
 
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