So? You suggested that people were choosing iOS over Windows Phone because of the head start. Not because of the actual product.
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So? You suggested that people were choosing iOS over Windows Phone because of the head start. Not because of the actual product.
Or it isn't because the vast majority doesn't agree with your opinion that it is the dock gloss etc that makes the iphone feel 'premium'
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The ironic part is that he really didn't know. Apple doesn't do focus groups etc. Basically Steve decided what they were going to give folks and told them to like it and they did. Rather than finding out what they wanted and giving that to them
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We don't know that they pulled 'a lot' of engineers. Or even that it was as implied because the software is behind schedule. This 'pull' could have been planned from the start. To have fresh eyes to help debug and to make sure that the two UIs are in sync with various changes.
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I think the vast majority would agree with this. Forstall and his team spent a lot of time putting in cute easter eggs of moving shadows on the knobs and buttons and missed huge bugs in iOS 6. THAT is likely a key factor in why he's no longer with the company. If Ive removing the cute means more time to look for and correct bugs then all the better
There's a lot of romanticizing of Steve Jobs going on since you he died. People b*tched about Apple and what it was/wasn't doing just as much then than they're doing now. This idea that Steve Jobs is the only one who would know what to do, the only one with good taste, the only one who knows how to come up with innovative products is hogwash.
That started well before he died. It's a major factor in why the stock dropped to under $100 when folks found out he was sick
You clearly know nothing about design.
Gloss and glass effects are considered to belong in the year 2000 in the design world, it was part of the "web 2.0" era where everything had a glossy glass effect.
That glass effect looks cheap and tacky and as any designer would tell you, it is poor design.
People over think too much. The iPhone does everything once could want from a mobile device. The variety of apps keep me up to date on everything and the phone calls (the most basic feature) works very well with the proximity sensor. Android or BB or anything else may do the same but I haven't found the fluidity in any other phone. I could care less how the UI looks till the time it looks at least decent and does the job it is meant to.
Whenever I see an absolute in the topic I scroll through the thread to see if the OP has contributed to the conversation. If not, then it's a Troll.
Some good points though here and there from those that did contribute.
Some good points though here and there from those that did contribute.
I don't see the designs going completely flat, just flatter and less exuberant. Here's a mockup that's been circulating online, I think it will go somewhere in this direction, just like the new music app in iOS 6.
Also, I think the overall direction will be similiar to how the facebook icon evolved.
Also, I think the overall direction will be similiar to how the facebook icon evolved.
I hope they manage to clean up that settings menu a little bit. I'm starting to find it cumbersome.
I kinda like the skeuomorphisms.
Still, Apple has always excelled at design. I'm sure they'll live up to their name.
I like skeumorphic animations. Like when you delete a pass from passbook. The shredder is kind of cool. However, I do not enjoy the skeumorphic "look". I for one hope they keep things like transitions (opening a new app and such). I find that (and things like expose and minimizing on mac) pleasing.
Sales guy: What are you looking for in a phone?
Customer: I really want reflective, glossy icons..
Sales guy would probably laugh in his face. lol.
I thought the icon gloss was a setting, let Apple add gloss or leave it when you upload your app? Other than that, simplicity usually wins in my opinion but looks are no deal-breaker. Functionality <3
Yeah, it's actually the default unless you intentionally disable it. I think it's telling that a lot of apps are getting away from it.
Isn't it though. It's starting to feel like new features are being crammed into iOS to me. Like an afterthought and not a very good one at that.
Personally I don't think *I* should be able to think of a better layout for settings being I'm not a developer or anything like that. But I think I could.
Its true in many cases. But it is also common that a product get popularity when it having something extra in features.It's game over if IOS7 fundamentally changes the UI paradigm. Too many grandmothers and completely non technical people use and like the current paradigm to make wholesale changes.
Just curious, what would Saint Steve do?
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I'm sorry but these apps do not have a premium feel to them. They're just plain ugly.
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I still can't believe those Apps made it past the design phase, they all look equally hideous.
Is it??
And their friends buy it because their other friends have it, who saw the other friends buy it and so on and on....? Simple as that, just splash £600 because other friends do it. Seriously... some people!!