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Jony Ive Pushing for 'Flat Design' in iOS 7 Amid Greater Hardware-Software Design Collaboration
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Steve never gave it to Jony because #1 he owned it himself and #2 he kept people siloed. In Steve's world hardware and software were kept separate.
wow, you said 'skeumorphism' twice in the same paragraph. Used to be you could go years without ever even seeing it once.
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non-skeuomorphic, wow you even improved on this dumb word
I thought Apple and Microsoft were in an agreement to not copy each other.
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Flat is fine, but if they start having live icons, people are going to flip
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Flat is fine, but if they start having live icons, people are going to flip
God, I hope not.
Windows 8 looks great. I got rid of the Microsoft blue-on-blue-on-blue color scheme. I'm using Mac's orange fish in green sea-life desktop with the border colors set to a beige.
I always preferred Mac visuals over those of Windows 7 even though I used my current W8 theme originally on W7. Now after spending an hour or so working in the W8 desktop Mac looks too busy. I like Microsoft's version of "flat".
The one visual problem in Windows 8 is the lack of a shadow behind the active window. In Mountain Lion the active window appears to lift off the desktop due to the excellent, natural-looking shadow under it.
2 things I would like to see
1: a theme store that allows apple to choose themes they approve from developers .. And I'm not talking android style "customisable" bull crap
2: cross app integration , apps communicating better with each other
3: an email app that allows me to attach what ever I want
4: macrumors users to stop using the word "innovation"
Ok that's more than 2
Seriously for # 4, it's getting out of control...
If you look closely at some of the products that Jony has apparently pulled off it's pretty much been downhill since the uni-body MacBook Pros in late 2008.
The once great looking mini is now a squat square without enough room for proper cooling, an optical drive or even a proper GPU. Yet it occupies more desk space than its predecessor! Instead of an exterior power supply that can be both more powerful and not transfer heat to the mini it's a little interior one. Instead of a front mounted SD card slot it's hidden on the back.
The new iMacs are a perfect example of form over function. The 21.5 has a stupid, little laptop hard drive, no replaceable RAM, no optical drive, no Firewire port and (again) the SD card slot hidden on the back. The 27in has similar problems, though less of them.
The disease of "thinness" has infected the retina MacBook Pros. An alleged "pro" machine without a dedicated Ethernet port? No Firewire? And of course no optical drive because Apple doesn't make money on optical media.
Really, the last few years have been the promotion of unnecessary thinness at the expense of computer function. It speaks of selling fashion accessories rather than computers. No wonder some pros are moaning about the lack of seriousness at Apple these days.
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
Probably. In 2014.
You can't change everything and release it to the public in a matter of months. Let alone the fact that he has other responsibilities. If it happens it was already in the works before Jony took the software role. He may have some influence in the next revision, sure, but his handiwork will really be the 2014 version of iOS.
Well, yea that's probably true. I mostly read comments on this site, I don't usually post (as you can tell by my noob rank
) and I see a slew of people using this word impetuously
Maybe Apple should contact Martha Stewart then? I thought UI should be designed by experts in... well, UI?
Since when was Steve Jobs an expert in UI? My guess is Ive knows more about it than most people posting in this thread.
Since when was Steve Jobs an expert in UI? My guess is Ive knows more about it than most people posting in this thread.
I am unaware of Steve designing anything. He was a spin master and a salesman. Steve Jobs was selling stuff that Wozniak was designing. Was not that the case?