There aren't many talk with notification centre and notification centre really not getting to much improvement over the years.
First let talk about positive side first. It is good to see the textured background is gone and finally the notification centre occupies the whole screen on iPad. It is also good to see notification centre gets brand new UI. Today's section is great for quickly look at weather information, today's schedule.
But the positive ends here.
Notification centre in iOS is just merely a placeholder for all your notifications. That is pretty sad.
1) The reason of remove Twitter, FaceBook compose button is beyond me. The reason keep Twitter, FaceBook compose button on Mavericks is also beyond me as well. This kind of design inconstant is not really good, consider now iOS and OS X is under one guy.
2) Also while OS X gains quick reply, iOS 7 still no go. WHY????? Why would only OS X gets quick replay, but not iOS 7? Isn't iDevices are major source of revenue for Apple?
3) Notification centre is merely a placeholder for all income notifications. In Android, if you have missed call, you can quickly call back in notification centre. If you get a long text message or email, you can use two finger to expand the notifications. You can also do quick respond a email message right in notification panel. This is where iOS absolutely behind the curve.
Solution for this: Let's us do something within notification centre, so we don't have to tap the notification centre, go to the app, then process our action. Let us do it right inside notification centre.
4) When you get all shorts of notifications, like: emails, messages, app updates. Things get really messy and long. Good thing is that all notifications are categorized by types, but dismiss them is nightmare. That small x inside a circle is really hard to tap. You still cannot swipe away a single notifications.
I believe Apple can do much more to improve overall notification centre usefulness. But until then, all we can see is notification centre absolute unless in every possible way.
First let talk about positive side first. It is good to see the textured background is gone and finally the notification centre occupies the whole screen on iPad. It is also good to see notification centre gets brand new UI. Today's section is great for quickly look at weather information, today's schedule.
But the positive ends here.
Notification centre in iOS is just merely a placeholder for all your notifications. That is pretty sad.
1) The reason of remove Twitter, FaceBook compose button is beyond me. The reason keep Twitter, FaceBook compose button on Mavericks is also beyond me as well. This kind of design inconstant is not really good, consider now iOS and OS X is under one guy.
2) Also while OS X gains quick reply, iOS 7 still no go. WHY????? Why would only OS X gets quick replay, but not iOS 7? Isn't iDevices are major source of revenue for Apple?
3) Notification centre is merely a placeholder for all income notifications. In Android, if you have missed call, you can quickly call back in notification centre. If you get a long text message or email, you can use two finger to expand the notifications. You can also do quick respond a email message right in notification panel. This is where iOS absolutely behind the curve.
Solution for this: Let's us do something within notification centre, so we don't have to tap the notification centre, go to the app, then process our action. Let us do it right inside notification centre.
4) When you get all shorts of notifications, like: emails, messages, app updates. Things get really messy and long. Good thing is that all notifications are categorized by types, but dismiss them is nightmare. That small x inside a circle is really hard to tap. You still cannot swipe away a single notifications.
I believe Apple can do much more to improve overall notification centre usefulness. But until then, all we can see is notification centre absolute unless in every possible way.