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New Video May Show iOS 7 Running on an iPad
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Many of the icons require further refinement. I hope this is just a work in progress, as I know Apple has the requisite talent.
https://twitter.com/TweetSmarter/status/345232055141011458
https://twitter.com/TweetSmarter/status/345232055141011458
Why does it need to expand to the screen width, just because the pixels are there? That is the definition of "clunky" - why use the pixels just because they're available? Inefficient design - they'd have to span all the icons extra wide, gratuitously... ugh! Would you design a table that takes up the entire room, just because the space is available? Of course not.
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All those elaborate animations are a total distraction. Why can't they make it so one screen simply gets replaced by another? Why do they have to have stuff grow and swell and flip around?
That stuff is entertaining for about an hour, and then just gets annoying.
That stuff is entertaining for about an hour, and then just gets annoying.
Those "elaborate" animations are far from gratuitous; they are there to draw one's eye to the app or place to which or from which you are going, or have come from - they are guiding your eyes by zooming - this is very elegant and serves a purpose, and is a great feature. Would you prefer the sliders and icons appeared/vanished in a shower of stars, like the pointless animations available on Linux, just for the sake of showing off? Animations are put to very good use here, and they also give some measure of "physicality" to iOS, instead of it being a dull, utilitarian tool.
Think of how an app shrinks into its' app icon on the Dock in a snake-like animation on OS X when you minimise it, and then reverses that animation and fans back out into its' original form when you click the icon on the Dock; were it not for that simple but powerful use of animation, many users would be saying "Where'd it go?!"
No wallpaper parallax (I know it can be disabled, but you wouldn't if you were showing the OS).
And that folder of 3 icons, when opened, doesn't quite have room for a 4th in the row. The spacing between the 3 icons is too wide.
Either of which could be bugs or work-in-progress, but my call is: fake.
And that folder of 3 icons, when opened, doesn't quite have room for a 4th in the row. The spacing between the 3 icons is too wide.
Either of which could be bugs or work-in-progress, but my call is: fake.
No parallax? Of course not - he holds the iPad in the same position for the entire video, and the shallow difference in angle from it laying on the table to being pivoted and held at around 20-30 degrees is barely enough to conclude that parallax is not active; how do you even know that parallax is even enabled on iPad iOS 7 Beta? Since this is the only video of the iPad running iOS 7, I'd be cautious with calling "fake" just yet...
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If this IS a fake, they've pretty much got the zoom/scale animations bang on with respect to timing and accuracy; that'd be one elaborate hoax if it were one; I'd have more faith in the fact that someone, somewhere HAS got a copy of the iPad Beta - software spreads faster than fire - it's hardly unheard of for a mere binary file to propagate across the internet in minutes!
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Totally bogus!
Iphone scaled to run on ipad..
Nothing is scaled to ipad.. Not even icon rows ...etc
Iphone scaled to run on ipad..
Nothing is scaled to ipad.. Not even icon rows ...etc
My guess: this is just Auto Layout doing its job, resizing the UI for the iPad. I suspect we'll see many changes to accommodate the larger form factor. If nothing was changing, the iPad would be officially supported in beta 1.
Yeah.. the sim screens.
This doesn't even look vaguely legit to me. Lol, looks like he took the square one from iPhone & resized it. Even in an "alpha", I doubt Apple didn't want the control center built to utilize the iPad's extra screen real estate...
I have to say, this most likely fake video has me excited for iOS 7 on the iPad. Based off the small thumbnails on Apple's website, I had been kind of rolling my eyes. But man, even just this mock up makes me excited. I rolled my eyes at iOS 7 for the iPhone, but it became my daily driver very quickly. And I don't even have a white iPhone.
Thanks for keeping the information up to date.
It does not work that way. When Apple focus on iOS they focus on iOS for all iOS devices. I would assume the delay in release of the finished OS for iPad is most likely due to having to update the Apple apps for iPhone and iPad separately. They're not just scaled up versions. Apple just do the iPhone Apps first simply cause the iPhone generates more profit.
That's my best guess at what happens. But saying it focuses iOS on the iPhone first is just silly.
Won't happen in iOS7, unfortunately. While WinRT has had it for a year - and most Samsung devices running Android 4+ ( also rumoured to come to stock Android 5).
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