The Whining Bloggers Won. Apple Overreacted. Consumers Lost.

[gadget123]

Meanwhile, outside of the tech bubble, people are genuinely excited about iOS, judging from what I see on various social networks.

Tech blogs and tech people will never change; it's their job to overreact and create sensationalistic headlines - that's what they did with Maps and that's what they'll do with iOS7. It's just a sign of their increasing irrelevance.

I've never even heard of anybody mention IOS in Facebook. As for Twitter there's a lot of people don't like it according to twitter trends

http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2013/06/ios7-backlash/?Authorised=false

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iOS 6 sucked, it will be that one updated that Apple will want to forget about. Look how many 'quick fixes' were pushed afterwards.

I feel bad for the devices stuck on it.

IOS 6 sucked? That's funny as many here are already downgrading back.

 

[Patriot24]

Windows 8 does the same underneath and it suffers the same problem.

People are not stupid. The change is a bad one many people agree like it or not.

The people who like it can't seem to understand some people hate the colouring, icons, Android screen ect..watch as my phone is going on ebay !

So Windows products suffer the same issues and you don't like Android, but you're going to sell your iPhone?

Good luck on BB10. *laughing hysterically*

 

[gadget123]

So Windows products suffer the same issues and you don't like Android, but you're going to sell your iPhone?

Good luck on BB10. *laughing hysterically*

I was meaning the desktop windows 8.

Laugh all you want but the colour scheme and keyboard are much more professional on the BB Z10 and it's not the highest spec but it's a quality phone.

I quite liked the phone prior to IOS7 anyway. If I was considering a second choice it would be the Android Sony Xperia.

 

[munakib]

So I decided to try iOS7 on my iPhone 4s - upgrading from my jb 5.1. I knew there was no way for me to go back so had to live with iOS7 but that captivating intro video got me too darn excited. After I got into iOS7, it felt like a downer because most of tweaks were already there with my 5.1 jb (Font/Easy Switching). The look felt even more childish after the install, so I desperately downgraded to 6.1.3.

At the end, I had to move back upto 7 from 6.1 because apple did incorporate tweaks which were essential and I needed to live with the childish look in order to have those advantages I had with JB. I think regular people (who never jb'ed) are going to LOVE IT! Women WOULD love IT because of the feminine colors across the system.

Designers/JB's/People like me, will just have to live with it - until MuscleNerd and Gang break this joint down.

 

[decafjava]

I'm afraid the Apple of recent times is changing it seems.

Because they were supposed to stay the same forever? Because we would have had maybe 10x as much whining if there had not been significant changes to the look/feel/functions of ios 7?

It's not just "satisfaction". Actually the key metric is more like "likely to buy again" or "would recommend to a friend". And that metric is falling across the board. the iPhone is "expensive", "boring", "for old people", or as my incredibly non-techie girlfriend put it "don't get one JadedMonkey".

Sorry your "metric" is as unscientific as mine that the iPhone is still very popular among my friends and acquaintances. However, everything I've read in terms of actual studies say the majority of iPhone users will get another one.

Apple's dumb

Thank you, for helping illustrate the difference between useful and thoughtful criticism like the two posters above and a puerile commenter like yourself. (Damn been wanting to use that word for a long time!! You probably won't understand given you likely were the one who upvoted your own comment.)

 

[lamerica80]

If iOS 7 is so bad can someone explain why it got a standing O at WWDC?

I've watched a number of the developer videos on the WWDC app and I can't wait to see what 3rd party developers do with some of the new API's in iOS 7.

Dude, they could throw their own feesees at the audience from the stage and still get a standing O with mouths open.

 

[sracer]

I can't believe people would want to go back to iOS 6 where there is no quick toggles for commonly used settings, worse multitasking, no airdrop, etc. The haters seem to be focusing exclusively on the look of the new UI. But since this was a major overhaul in like 6 months I suspect some of that will change/improve prior to iOS 7 shipping, and probably even after. For me the new features/functionality improvements (that we didn't get from Jobs & Forstall) are most important.

I bolded the feature that has the potential for being the worst part of iOS7. Of all of the design features of iOS, perhaps it's intelligent (some would say, "limited") multitasking was a significant element to excellent battery life and system performance.

Now Apple is introducing "true" multitasking and application autostarting in iOS7. Those are the 2 features that forced me off of Android and on to iOS. My Android devices (still have plenty of them) have a dozen or so apps that autostart that have no reason to. That results in a lag when starting the apps that I actually deliberately started.

The true multitasking of Android results in apps that, if only are ever-so-slightly unoptimized have a cumulative negative effect on battery life.

If iOS7 suffers the same fate, that will be one less reason to stick with it. Because if I'm going to deal with poor battery life and performance, then I want to deal with it on an open platform.

Cutting Apple some slack knowing this is beta one of basically a new OS redesigned in 6 months or so isn't having fanboy blinders on. Had Apple released iOS 7 looking very similar to iOS 6 I think the reaction would have been much worse. I don't think they could afford to wait until iOS 8 to roll out something new. Also I don't think enough people have used it for an extended period of time (if at all) to form a solid opinion of it. I see a lot of knee jerk reactions based on screen shots or very limited use of beta 1 software. Let's see what people's opinions are 2-3 months from now.

From a visual perspective, I think the look of the iOS7 beta 1 is a twisted psychological experiment (or maybe expectation management) by Apple. Something along the lines of:

Gearheads: We want iOS to look different!
Apple: Really? How about "this".... (iOS7 beta 1)
Gearheads: Argh!!!! My eyes!!!
Apple: Here's iOS7 GM (looking like iOS6 with solid colors vs. textures)
Gearheads: Yes!

 

[rtomyj]

I don't think you've used Android. Yes iOS 7 takes design cues from Android, but it also takes some from all mobile operating systems. I loved the look and feel of iOS 6 and still love 7. There is still the sense of attention to detail that I love from Apple (in Beta 1 mind you). Comparing it side to side with Android you can see it is flat and white but the similarities pretty much stop there.

 

[phpmaven]

Until iOS 6, iOS was magnificent. Rich. Luxurious. Extravagant. Exuberant. AMAZING. INCREDIBLE in a word! Its aesthetic had no match.
The whining bloggers started complaining about Leather and Felt. Two apps that needed fixing, that was it. Then they jumped onto 'Skeuomorphism' bandwagon just because of Leather stitching and Contacts apps being like realworld counterparts. It was actually not that big of an issue.

Apple Overreacted. Removing everything that could be associated to the real-world. Like Reflections. Gloss. Shadows. Stripes. Textures. Colors. A reflective dock. Sign boards in Maps. Even Buttons, couldn't be saved.

Now all iOS 7 is, strictly speaking appearance-wise, obnoxiously ugly. Headache inducing. Every app looks the same, like it was put together the last minute. White everywhere. No shadows. Hard to read text. So much that it alienates the loyal and familiar iOS audience.

In the end, the bloggers successfully managed to bring down iPhone's OS aesthetic to 'just another Andriod-looking OS'. iOS has lost all it's character and richness. Everything feels dumbed-down and subdued.

Let me just respond to the threee sentances in the title of this thread:

No they didn't
No they didn't
No they didn't

And let me add that this is complete nonsense.
Unfortunately, these forums have really gone down the drain in the last couple of years. It's a shame.

 

[likemyorbs]

I couldn't possibly disagree more. I love iOS 7.

 

[cmChimera]

Can we stop having threads for every nonsensical rant complaining about the FIRST BETA of iOS 7?

 

[Feed Me]

In terms of design, the only thing that cries out to me in iOS 7 is the ghastly homescreen icons. These babies need serious work.


Everything else in the OS is fresh and good-looking. I hope we'll see lots of evolutionary changes and tweaking in the UI as the betas progress, but I think that the overall idea is just great.

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Can we stop having threads for every nonsensical rant complaining about the FIRST BETA of iOS 7?

This isn't another thread about "HEY GUYZ I MADE SAFARI CRASH I BETTER MAKE A THREAD", it's discussing the new UI, which is easily seen on http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/, and not unique to Beta 1 in any way.

 

[nerdfighter]

I also love iOS 7. I'm using it as a daily driver. Definitely will recommend families and friends to upgrade in September.

 

[cmChimera]

This isn't another thread about "HEY GUYZ I MADE SAFARI CRASH I BETTER MAKE A THREAD", it's discussing the new UI, which is easily seen on http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7/, and not unique to Beta 1 in any way.

There are too many topics discussing how much the OP doesn't like the new Ui. We get it. We don't need a new topic for every little variant of that opinion.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1595478/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1594572/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1595862/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1596374/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1593705/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1595948/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1596041/

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1593614/

And I'm not even close to posting all of them. If you don't like the UI, then cool story. Don't make a thread about it. Go into one of the other threads and post your thoughts.

As for it being unique to the beta, there are reliable reports that there will eb design tweaks during the multiple month beta period.

 

[joneun]

And now they're trying to say that "it's a work in progress" it will look better~

Ever since the iPhone 5 design, I thought that Apple was just going off of the reports that blogs were making. Like if they report about an iWatch, Apple will make an iWatch. Just like the iPad mini.

 

[Frankied22]

Day 4 of usage:

I'm still thinking I'm trapped inside a Cydia Theme.

Lol

 

[zbarvian]

And now they're trying to say that "it's a work in progress" it will look better~

Ever since the iPhone 5 design, I thought that Apple was just going off of the reports that blogs were making. Like if they report about an iWatch, Apple will make an iWatch. Just like the iPad mini.

I think you've got your cause and effect mixed up there

 

[kmj2318]

iOS 7 is better than iOS 6 in every way.

 

[nishishei]

You are welcome to stay on iOS:6. But Apple needed to be bold and daring to keep iOS relevant with what the market is doing.

iOS 6 with a unified file system would have been bold and daring. Making some ugly icons as the centerpiece of iOS 7 that hundreds of amateurs could make better in less than 24 hrs is not a sign of a company with a market cap of $450 billion. It's actually kind of pathetic given their talent pool and cash. Investors aren't impressed either.

 

[Rogifan]

iOS 6 with a unified file system would have been bold and daring. Making some ugly icons as the centerpiece of iOS 7 that hundreds of amateurs could make better in less than 24 hrs is not a sign of a company with a market cap of $450 billion. It's actually kind of pathetic given their talent pool and cash. Investors aren't impressed either.

Investors don't give a **** about software. All they care about is when the next gadget is coming out.

And if you think Apple could have released iOS 7 with the same UI as iOS 6 and not received any backlash I have no words for that.

 

[joneun]

Someone needs to give developers a heads up. Don't dev for iOS7.

 

[Retired Cat]

I own an iPhone 5, and am new to iOS and smart phones in general, so here is my perspective. I have owned my iPhone for about 1 month.

I like iOS 6. The icons and interface are generally bold, easy to recognize, and easy to use. For the most part it is functional and businesslike.

My only complaint about 6 is some of the textures like felt and leather. Glass and metal textures look like they belong on a digital device. The others not so much.

I am not a dev or early adopter, so my experience with iOS 7 is limited to the QT demos on Apple's website that I played through Safari on my iPhone.

7 looks fresh, but the icons and colors just do not stand out to me as well as they do in 6. In 6, everything just seems more clearly delineated on the home screen. The interface on 7 also doesn't seem to look quite as nice on my black/slate iPhone.

I can live with 7, but I prefer the boldness of 6, and I hope that Apple takes some steps to address concerns about the home screen.

 

[BvizioN]

I've never even heard of anybody mention IOS in Facebook. As for Twitter there's a lot of people don't like it according to twitter trends

http://blogs.ft.com/tech-blog/2013/06/ios7-backlash/?Authorised=false

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IOS 6 sucked? That's funny as many here are already downgrading back.

Most people downgrading from iOS 7 to 6 are due to beta isues (bugs etc) and not the UI. Actually most people have positively changed their mind once they have used. It's kind of silly to comment about it if you havn't used it for yourself.

And yes, iOS 6 was bad and now compare to iOS 7 is terrible!

 

[joneun]

I was excited by iOS6 and the iPhone 5 without having used it.

iOS 7 is as ugly as it looks.

 

[sracer]

iOS 7 is better than iOS 6 in every way.

Please! It's only a beta!