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No going back to iOS 6 = no more Apple purchases! I'm starting a movement

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Just settle down. ha!

You do know that there are still apps that have not been upgraded to work under 7.0 yet? Some of these are just unusable. I have one app that while using it, displays in app notifications that could not be dismissed under 7.0. If you interact with a lot of people in this app, that can be a huge pain because the only way to dismiss those in app notifications is to close the app and reopen it.

For this reason alone, 7.0 only spent two days on my 4S and Mini before I downgraded. If and when that app gets updated to work on 7.0, I'll go back.

Some people have valid reasons to be bitching about this.
 
byke said:
It does feel to me that ios 7 is the new ms vista.
Both had special graphic feature that didn't really do anything and both were riddled with huge and poor design choices.
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Excellent viewpoint. Apple has a history of this - it took an attractive effective GUI and turned it into a pointless, pastel reproduction. They have done it before - OS7 to OS8 was rescued by OS9 before the "mighty" OSX change. Don't be surprised as OSX iterations become more iOS like. iOS devices are the future for Apple and international sales not OSX machines for the masses in America.
 
JackieInCo said:
Just settle down. ha!

You do know that there are still apps that have not been upgraded to work under 7.0 yet? Some of these are just unusable. I have one app that while using it, displays in app notifications that could not be dismissed under 7.0. If you interact with a lot of people in this app, that can be a huge pain because the only way to dismiss those in app notifications is to close the app and reopen it.

For this reason alone, 7.0 only spent two days on my 4S and Mini before I downgraded. If and when that app gets updated to work on 7.0, I'll go back.

Some people have valid reasons to be bitching about this.
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That's not apples fault that's the developers problem.
 
Coming in very late, so I probably missed it. But this seems awfully familiar. And yet, I think less wide spread than the number of users who freaked out, and wanted desperately to go back to iOS5, after blindly updating to iOS6. Again, sorry if it's all been said, but I only skimmed through the pages.
 
p0x said:
That's not apples fault that's the developers problem.
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JackieInCo said:
But it's still a valid reason to want to be able to downgrade.
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If the user's issue is an app that doesn't work right and they can't revert to iOS6, there are three solutions:
  1. Push the developer to update the app
  2. Convince Apple to start re-signing iOS6 so people can downgrade
  3. Find/buy a phone that hasn't yet been upgraded and sell the one that has been upgraded.

One might want #2, and #3 is a stopgap, but the long term solution is really #1.
 
charlituna said:
You can read reviews, the myriad of articles on sites like this, go into a store or even just the support website Apple puts up when the software launches.

There are ways to look before you leap. Maybe not perfectly but decently.
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Not really even decently, perhaps somewhat at best for most. Nothing like actually using something like a mobile phone for a little bit yourself to understand what is missing from what you used to have, what is new, what might be troublesome, etc. Nothing much there that would do it for most typical users.
 
I was watching last weeks iPad Today show and Sarah's iPad crashed when she closed an app trying to show some gestures in 7.0. The iPad went right to the Apple logo and rebooted.
 
i heard that if you save them device-specific SHSH files *before* you update to iOS7 you *are able* to rollback, but i do not know the routine..

--
Q: Are there any intelligent people around here?
A: know.
 
How, exactly, is it a failure in any objective sense? The update rate was 200million in the first week, and is currently somewhere above 60%... Already. Faster than any previous version, and light years ahead of any Android version in terms of adoption. By the numbers, it's a whopping success. But it's a failure because a few outspoken malcontents on a forum don't like the colors? Get over yourselves. The world's a bigger place than your myopia.
 
I dont think 200 million is a success, more so shows trust.
If people were allowed to roll back, it would be interesting to see what numbers would.
 
No going back to iOS 6 = no more Apple purchases! I'm starting a movement

People who say its a drastic change are drastically silly. It's the same bloody os in a cleaner skin and it's quicker with better features.

Grow up
 
shenfrey said:
People who say its a drastic change are drastically silly. It's the same bloody os in a cleaner skin and it's quicker with better features.

Grow up
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Odd comment considering iOS now looks like it was designed with a box of crayons.
 
colourfastt said:
Odd comment considering iOS now looks like it was designed with a box of crayons.
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I just find it odd that people are complaining about finding it difficult or complicated to use, when all thats happened is a reskin, wether it looks childish or not is irrelevant in this context. It's not changed functionally apart from having some improved features.

I just don't understand what people are finding so damn difficult about it, that's all.
 
shenfrey said:
I just find it odd that people are complaining about finding it difficult or complicated to use, when all thats happened is a reskin, wether it looks childish or not is irrelevant in this context. It's not changed functionally apart from having some improved features.

I just don't understand what people are finding so damn difficult about it, that's all.
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The 'damned difficulty" is that the UI is far LESS functional now that shadowing is almost, if not totally, gone .. the fonts are overly narrow and hard to see, etc. ..... unless one is under 25 and doesn't yet need to wear reading glasses.
 
The iOS looks great and works great for me. It's really a matter of personal preference, and :apple: is banking that most people prefer their design.
 
colourfastt said:
The 'damned difficulty" is that the UI is far LESS functional now that shadowing is almost, if not totally, gone .. the fonts are overly narrow and hard to see, etc. ..... unless one is under 25 and doesn't yet need to wear reading glasses.
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Settings > General > Accessibility > Bold Text = ON

problem fixed.
 
colourfastt said:
Odd comment considering iOS now looks like it was designed with a box of crayons.
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I kind of like it. And I hate everything. Especially change.

Couldn't stand the lack of contrast but then I used a solid black background. It's a whole new look and I can actually read words beneath the icons.

A bit too much white in some apps but whatever...
 
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