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...which means iOS 6 is way better.
Just downgraded my iPhone 4 back to iOS 6.1.3. The sluggishness was intorelable (and yes, I have installed iOS 7 from scratch without restoring backup, didn't help). With iOS 6, the iPhone feels so smooth and fast. What was that word? Snappy? And those beautiful, detailed icons... I missed them.
For every one of those examples you have given, I guarantee you will find someone who prefers the older one. It's a matter of personal preference really. So actually, those are really great analogies. They explain both sides of the 'argument'.
I've tested iOS7 started back in June when it launched to the Devs, yes I'm a dev if anyone wants to know and also a graphic designer too.
1) Looks like cheese
There's only two ways to visually design a OS with a "Flat" look and unfortunately iOS 7 doesn't land on A or B.
A) Super flat non-gradient design must be a two colour scheme, such as Windows Phone 7 & 8. Unfortunately it's a waste of a high resolution screen and that explains how the Lumia 900 got away with their mid range specs during their launch.
B) Flat design with gradients that are very subtle with colour change, 3D F/X with minor shadowing and drop shadows, they must be constant across the board. Perfect example would be Skype, eBay, Google and Facebook mobile which had achieved this design aspect properly.
Honestly, iOS 7 looks like a page ripped out of Dora's colouring book, My Little Pony and a essentially a Teletubby phone. Its humanly impossible to have two neon colours that are in a gradient and sitting on a white background to look good. You can't even place bright yellow on white back ground.
An eye for design is something you're born with, enhanced when you take a design course and fully brought to life when you're in the working field
The Apple Store Icon is Apple's "best" ver so far, it's a "little" better than stock apps.
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i just bought my grandma a 5c and have been using it a little over a week while i'm visiting her in NY. I am so happy that my 4s is still on 6.01 because the software on the 5c is giving me painful *****. The screen doesn't work half the time, can't figure out how to use spotlight and so many other things. I'm pretty tech savvy but she isn't. I really hope she can use it when i leave to go back home. 
Sticking with iOS 6 until I have no choice but to update.
I don't have a problem with flat if it's done right but Apple just made a mess of it. Look at the Google Maps app, it's flat and simple but it still looks nice, Apple tried to go in a similar direction but they added pointless stuff like cartoon icons and colourful text. Now they have an OS which looks cheap. Personally, I would have just kept it the way it was on iOS 1-6 and kept making adjustments every year. That's what they've been doing since OS X was released and it's still great.
I don't have a problem with flat if it's done right but Apple just made a mess of it. Look at the Google Maps app, it's flat and simple but it still looks nice, Apple tried to go in a similar direction but they added pointless stuff like cartoon icons and colourful text. Now they have an OS which looks cheap. Personally, I would have just kept it the way it was on iOS 1-6 and kept making adjustments every year. That's what they've been doing since OS X was released and it's still great.
I'm still running iOS 6 on my iPhone 5. If Apple gets the battery life a bit better I might upgrade. Or maybe I'll hold out as long as possible until an app I need requires updating to sync correctly and that app requires iOS 7.
I have iOS 7 on my iPad 3. It's pretty. Keeping iOS 6 on my iPhone is like instant nostalgia though
I have iOS 7 on my iPad 3. It's pretty. Keeping iOS 6 on my iPhone is like instant nostalgia though
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Still on iOS 6 for 2 main reasons: jailbreak and iOS 7 animations gives me motion sickness symptoms. Yeah, the second reason affects a very small number of people and sadly I'm one of those.
Once both issues are addressed, I'll be ready to jump ship!
Still on iOS 6 for 2 main reasons: jailbreak and iOS 7 animations gives me motion sickness symptoms. Yeah, the second reason affects a very small number of people and sadly I'm one of those.
Once both issues are addressed, I'll be ready to jump ship!
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Just updated the last of the four iDevices to iOS 7 a couple nights ago.
iPhone 4 - yeah a little chuggy, but really not too bad
iPad 2 - seems fine
iPad 3 - using it right now pretty great
iPhone 5 - totally sweet
Some of the app icons do seem a touch underdeveloped (I too coming from a graphic design perspective), but overall I appreciate the changes.
Just updated the last of the four iDevices to iOS 7 a couple nights ago.
iPhone 4 - yeah a little chuggy, but really not too bad
iPad 2 - seems fine
iPad 3 - using it right now pretty great
iPhone 5 - totally sweet
Some of the app icons do seem a touch underdeveloped (I too coming from a graphic design perspective), but overall I appreciate the changes.
I'm still on iOS 6 for the time being.
I plan to update to iOS 7 in the future, but I want Apple to polish it up a bit first. iOS 6 is very smooth and unflappably stable.
I plan to update to iOS 7 in the future, but I want Apple to polish it up a bit first. iOS 6 is very smooth and unflappably stable.
iPad 2 running iOS 6. I don't want my iPad 2 to be like an iPod Touch 4th Gen running iOS 6 (complete garbage). So looks like my iPad 2 saw it's last iOS update last year (don't know if that's a good thing or bad thing).
I'm on iOS 6 and pinching myself for it every moment. Such an awful OS. But, jailbreak.
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1. Tethered jailbreak for iPhone 4 is available.
2. General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion.
Things that ppl don't realize, until it happens.
2) iOS 7 runs slow enough, jailbreaking it is gonna be catastrophic. Everything is written for and loaded on to MobileSubtrate. The more that's loaded on that extension, the slower it gets over time and you can forget about loading Winterboard for skinning and theme'ing a new look for iOS 7. I would just manually change all the icon by replacing all the png files.
1) Another factor of iOS 7's Motion Sickness is caused from the new color palettes gradient'ing to another each other that is sitting on a white background, accompanied by pencil thin lines and having a frosted transparent windows pop up from time to time.
2) iOS 7 runs slow enough, jailbreaking it is gonna be catastrophic. Everything is written for and loaded on to MobileSubtrate. The more that's loaded on that extension, the slower it gets over time and you can forget about loading Winterboard for skinning and theme'ing a new look for iOS 7. I would just manually change all the icon by replacing all the png files.
1) Another factor of iOS 7's Motion Sickness is caused from the new color palettes gradient'ing to another each other that is sitting on a white background, accompanied by pencil thin lines and having a frosted transparent windows pop up from time to time.
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iOS 7 Now on 73% of Devices, But Adoption Rates 'Much Slower' Than iOS 6
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/1...es-but-adoption-rates-much-slower-than-ios-6/
When the fanboys, the average Joes and mom & pop updated first, the rest stayed behind & majority of them won't be updating. This is where iOS 7 will come to a stop, we are the minority that knows better.
https://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/1...es-but-adoption-rates-much-slower-than-ios-6/
When the fanboys, the average Joes and mom & pop updated first, the rest stayed behind & majority of them won't be updating. This is where iOS 7 will come to a stop, we are the minority that knows better.
After 7.0.3 how do you guys feel about iOS 7? It's honestly not bad but wondering on some opinions as I have an iPhone 5 on 6.1.4.
Stay with iOS 6.1.4, don't even think about pulling that crazy trigger.
Even the iPad Air is ruined with iOS 7; all the stuttering, lag and screen flickering on some 3rd party app is just mind blogging. It runs exactly like the iPad 4, just like how the IP5 performs on iOS 7 and it's 1/4 of a sec faster.
You won't be able to see the screen stuttering, it's hard to record it and it's has to be seen in person. You'll get the idea from my recording about the speeds.
I'm still on 6.1.3 on my Mini and 4S. Have no plans to upgrade anytime soon. I tried 7.0 on release and that Friday morning, I downgraded back to 6.1.3 on both.
Took me a while but finally, all of my devices are now running ios 7. Updated and not looking back.
I have an iPhone 5. Even if a tethered jailbreak is released, I still won't update since it's just not practical, IMHO.
The reduce motion feature back in iOS 7.0.2 (when you wrote your post) and earlier only disabled Parallax effect and not the zooming effect when switching applications. The zooming effect is what gave some people motion sickness including myself.