Please, for the love of all things, keep them separate and only work on harmonizing iDevices with Mac's with regard to iCloud/syncing. I am growing tired of iOS creeping into my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro's OS. Bertrand Serlet, come back to Apple! We've missed you since 10.6.
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Jony Ive Pushing for 'Flat Design' in iOS 7 Amid Greater Hardware-Software Design Collaboration
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Please, for the love of all things, keep them separate and only work on harmonizing iDevices with Mac's with regard to iCloud/syncing. I am growing tired of iOS creeping into my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro's OS. Bertrand Serlet, come back to Apple! We've missed you since 10.6.
This is simple relative to the stupid overboard skeuomorphism they've been doing recently with OS X 10.8 and iOS 6. Except iOS 7's design to be to the updated podcast app's design as iOS 6's design was to the initial podcast app's design.
I'm sure Apple could fix it without having to create yet another icon, and don't encourage them.
Yeah, no more icons. Just give us the ability to look up settings in the spotlight search and even change some of them right from the same screen.
Though I think brightness specifically should be added to the multitasking bar on the iPhone/iPod touch. Making it consistent with the iPad.
Flat enough? (Thanks to http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/13/if-apple-made-ios-in-1986-this-is-what-it-would-look-like/ )
I love it! System 6.8!
so apple is basically going to remove features and copy windows 8 ?
Ive is going to kill apple, best thing they could do is kick his ass out and get someone else in to actually, you know, INNOVATE, instead of his wierd fixation on making everything into an unusable pebble.
Ive is going to kill apple, best thing they could do is kick his ass out and get someone else in to actually, you know, INNOVATE, instead of his wierd fixation on making everything into an unusable pebble.
I don't care about what the next iPhone itself brings in it. iOS 7 is going to be the best update in a long time.
Jony Ive saves us again
You must be one of those fanboys I have been reading about.
Because 90% of the people complaining hate Apple and are here just to pick on iFans.
Where the hell are you getting this information lol? Why would they remove features? This doesnt make any sense at all
Apple consistently removes features. For example, iOS 6 removed YouTube (not to mention Google Maps!). OS X 10.7 removed Rosetta. 10.8 removed RSS. I'm sure that there are other features gone that I'm not aware of too!
its okay on the iPhone but horrible on the iPad. you cant find anything. all i want is my list view on the left back. not those silly album covers everywhere. so many steps to simply find anything in a playlist for example
There's lots of skeuomorphism and glossy 3D-ish stuff in the current springboard, apps and UI elements that clash against more current clean design concepts.
My take is that Jobs, due to his Pixar animation management experience, wanted stuff that seemed more life-like to typical moviegoer-type consumers, whereas Ives might cater more to the design aesthetics of the art and contemporary architecture communities, where gratuitous (uncanny valley) realism is, for the most art, passé. Maybe these types don't even go to Disney/Pixar movies any more or at all.
I don't think they'll go totally flat like Metro UI flat. I don't think we'll see an overhaul.
I think they'll simply unify the design language towards 'more flat' and away from the realistic (or what some people would say skeumorphic) visual style they've got now on some aspects of iOS.
For example, the Camera Icon, and Settings Icon are 'flat'...the Messages app icon with the candy gloss...isnt. the Music app is 'flat', the Calendar app with the leather stitching, isn't. In iOS 7 I think they'll do away with the candy gloss and the leather stitching and so become more 'flat' and unified.
So, I'm thinking more 'unification' than overhaul. I think that's what the article means when they say the change will be pretty conservative.
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I think they'll simply unify the design language towards 'more flat' and away from the realistic (or what some people would say skeumorphic) visual style they've got now on some aspects of iOS.
For example, the Camera Icon, and Settings Icon are 'flat'...the Messages app icon with the candy gloss...isnt. the Music app is 'flat', the Calendar app with the leather stitching, isn't. In iOS 7 I think they'll do away with the candy gloss and the leather stitching and so become more 'flat' and unified.
So, I'm thinking more 'unification' than overhaul. I think that's what the article means when they say the change will be pretty conservative.
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Design changes, according to the report, are conservative. In other words: to a minimum. Don't expect big changes at all.
Hmm. They've cramped as many pixel as the human eye can resolve* into the iPhone. So, the next frontier is 3D?
Proclaiming "flat" sounds like doubling-down on secrecy to me.
*) Yes, those 1080p displays are nice and look gorgeous even when you hold them directly in front of your eyes.
Proclaiming "flat" sounds like doubling-down on secrecy to me.
*) Yes, those 1080p displays are nice and look gorgeous even when you hold them directly in front of your eyes.
