The iPhone 7 removed the Headphone Jack and we all did survive.
My biggest gripe with iOS (and goodness it is so much worse looking at someone's Android phone) is that the UI - Springboard - is old and having a grid of icons on the home screen layered over wallpaper, with folders, which could have pages of apps in them and then of course the possible pages of home screens is really a tired interface. Apple had the opportunity with this new device and introduction to the next decade of the smartphone to design a radically different UI for the home screen and take us away from a grid of apps.
It could have been this year's headphone jack removal. Showing us a new way to interact with our device and access our applications. But instead it is the same iOS with a new display.
My biggest gripe with iOS (and goodness it is so much worse looking at someone's Android phone) is that the UI - Springboard - is old and having a grid of icons on the home screen layered over wallpaper, with folders, which could have pages of apps in them and then of course the possible pages of home screens is really a tired interface. Apple had the opportunity with this new device and introduction to the next decade of the smartphone to design a radically different UI for the home screen and take us away from a grid of apps.
It could have been this year's headphone jack removal. Showing us a new way to interact with our device and access our applications. But instead it is the same iOS with a new display.
