And yet, you were enthusiastically looking forward to using a very "flat" app from the one company who pretty much ushered in anti-skeuemorphic design.
If you hate iOS7, trust me, you will absolutely hate Office on iPad.
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This is ridiculous!!!! WHY? [MS Office requires iOS 7]
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And yet, you were enthusiastically looking forward to using a very "flat" app from the one company who pretty much ushered in anti-skeuemorphic design.
If you hate iOS7, trust me, you will absolutely hate Office on iPad.
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Doesn't matter. I'd rather use a "flat" app, than a flat operating system. Never will use iOS 7 on an iPad, not now not ever. I'm glad some people see the way I do on here.
I upgraded my iPhone 4 and iPad 2 when iOS7 was released. I disliked the LOOK of the OS but as time goes by, I am not looking at the interface as much. I know where things are and stuff.
As far as Apps needing iOS7. I feel like i have seen quite a few. That is the way developers will be doing things...releasing for the current OS and not worrying about the past. this means they can use the latest SDK and latest stuff Apple has added. There won't be a need to make sure you have 2 things going at once.
I know my iPad2 sometimes seems slow but it is also only 16gb and that is a pitiful space these days. i have mine 80-95% all the time and that isn't great for it anyway.
I love some of the newly added stuff to iOS7. it makes things so much easier. BUT I can understand your feelings, just have to say "get used to it" as more and more developers will be doing this.
As far as Apps needing iOS7. I feel like i have seen quite a few. That is the way developers will be doing things...releasing for the current OS and not worrying about the past. this means they can use the latest SDK and latest stuff Apple has added. There won't be a need to make sure you have 2 things going at once.
I know my iPad2 sometimes seems slow but it is also only 16gb and that is a pitiful space these days. i have mine 80-95% all the time and that isn't great for it anyway.
I love some of the newly added stuff to iOS7. it makes things so much easier. BUT I can understand your feelings, just have to say "get used to it" as more and more developers will be doing this.
I'm sorry, but you're complaining about not wanting to upgrade when you still in fact, can?
I'd say you're in a pretty sweet spot for now. I feel bad mostly for the people with ipad 1's as they had the shortest lifespan of pretty much any apple product. For the record, I still use my ipad 1, but there are plenty of people that can't.
I'd say you're in a pretty sweet spot for now. I feel bad mostly for the people with ipad 1's as they had the shortest lifespan of pretty much any apple product. For the record, I still use my ipad 1, but there are plenty of people that can't.
Let me chime in as a developer with several apps in the AppStore, all supporting all iOS versions starting with 4.0 (with armv6 support, meaning I do support the iPhone 3G and the iPod touch 2G in even my latest apps I've submitted 1-2 weeks ago).
It's pretty easy to make an app support even old iOS versions. If MS uses autolayout (I don't know) or, NSMutableAttributedString's addAttribute:value:range (something quite useful with rendering showing formatted HTML in a lightweight component - that is, not in a UIWebView - and consequenltly probably used by their suite) then, the app could quite easily be compatible with iOS6 too, covering a lot more devices.
Without those features, even iOS4/5 support could be possible, depending on other features.
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That's definitely lazyness on the devs' part, unless they really use some non-existing stuff. I generally only use iOS7-only stuff in conditional blocks and try to come up with something similar / workaround in the code targeted at earlier OS'es.
For example, I use the above-mentioned [NSMutableAttributedString addAttribute:value:range] in one of my apps to display simple, random HTML formatted text in a table cell. As formatting isn't THAT important, I simply display the text as is (w/o bold / italic / etc. formatting) under pre-iOS6 OS versions. The users don't lose THAT much - certainly this is much more a user-friendly solution than not making the app compatible with iOS versions prior to iOS6 at all.
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who are you to say that? OP has all the freedom to manifest his/her feelings about anything involving anything. Especially involving applications that are not compatible with an OS version one feels like keeping.You don 't have to reply to a thread. You can skip it.
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You don 't have to reply to a thread. You can skip it.
Thank you! I appreciate that.
Plus the SSH fix isn't available for this iPad on iOS 6. If you don't upgrade to iOS 7 you not only won't be able to download certain apps, but you also face a security risk. I've had no problems at all with iOS 7 on the 3rd gen iPad btw. Oh and iOS 7.1 performs even better. There is really no logical reason to stick with iOS 6.
I will give you a simple example. TurboTax. They don't make it for PPC. Upgrade to Intel, or do your taxes the old fashioned way. It is that simple.
Same thing here. Office for iPad. Upgrade to iOS 7, or type your letter in Office for Windows.
The Mac App Store is full of apps now that require Mavericks, while I've decided to stay on Mountain Lion. I can hardly fault Apple for that. I understand it's necessary for technology to move forward.
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What happens when your iPad breaks? You going to buy another old iPad?
I understand being hesitant to upgrade. I'm no iOS 7 fan. But saying that you won't "ever" use it might be taking it a little far.
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What happens when your iPad breaks? You going to buy another old iPad?
I understand being hesitant to upgrade. I'm no iOS 7 fan. But saying that you won't "ever" use it might be taking it a little far.
I must confess, this is one of the most redundant, time wasting threads I have seen this week. All this grandstanding and to-ing and fro-ing... both palms are approaching my forehead at light speed.
OP, there IS no "way around" this requirement, no matter how much you dislike it, and I do sincerely sympathise and feel for you, but you either use iOS 7 or you don't; direct your complaint to Microsoft, but I advise you not to expect them to adapt the apps just for a few people who prefer iOS 6; sheep will "moo" before that happens.
Take it easy - some people have the daily worry of a choice of life or death, seriously, this is such a tiny "issue" it's not even worth fretting over.
Take care
OP, there IS no "way around" this requirement, no matter how much you dislike it, and I do sincerely sympathise and feel for you, but you either use iOS 7 or you don't; direct your complaint to Microsoft, but I advise you not to expect them to adapt the apps just for a few people who prefer iOS 6; sheep will "moo" before that happens.
Take it easy - some people have the daily worry of a choice of life or death, seriously, this is such a tiny "issue" it's not even worth fretting over.
Take care
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You don 't have to reply to a thread. You can skip it.
Point being, complaining solves nothing. Its a choice the OP must make.
I suppose I should've said, learn to live with the consequences. All complaining does is annoy those around you.
Usually people complain about issues on here because they feel it will perpetuate change. I posted simply to say, it won't. So if the OP thinks that complaining will help the situation, might as well just stop.
iOS 7 fixed a lot of security issues. Microsoft takes security very seriously these days, and probably doesn't want to support old versions of iOS, particularly since uptake rates for new versions of iOS are historically very high.
iOS 7.1 fixes a lot of what was buggy in iOS 7. It took Apple a few versions to get OS X right, and I expect the same with iOS. iOS 8 should be an improvement, since Apple has already walked back some of the more radical changes of iOS 7.
Its not hard as much as some folks either don't want iOS 7 because their iDevice is so old it won't perform as well, but I think the majority of people don't like the look and feel of iOS7 so they stick with iOS6.
We are left with chooses as I mentioned in my earlier post. You can choose not to upgrade to the newest OS, but then the consequences of that choice is you lose out on using the new or upgraded apps.
Its immaterial if I say iOS7 is great, because its what I like, the OP for his reasons doesn't like it and that's his right, but he shouldn't complain when new apps like Office are released with a requirement to run on the current OS.
iOS 7 and Microsoft's "Modern"-styled stuff are equally flat.
Microsoft never had any remarkable UI work before going "flat", so they had nothing to lose. With Apple, it's exactly the opposite.
Nope. Never will. And to be honest, office for ipad doesn't look to be that great anyway. Tried it out on my friend's iPad. I didn't know it requires a $99/yr subscription...wtf?
That's a poor excuse for having a double-standard, specifically *craving* an app with a flat UI while pitching a fit that you have to upgrade to an OS with the same flat UI. What came before from each shouldn't matter.
I can't find a single mention of the OP regarding any possible outcome such a thread would produce.
OP is showing interest in applications that do not support an OS, and is willing to share his/her thoughts with the community.
Suddenly, someone comes out saying OP shouldn't expect MS to fix the situation. Except, OP's goal was clearly, obviously different.
As I said, you're not forced to post replies in threads you dislike. Report it if you feel it shouldn't be here.
What matters is that Microsoft's take on "flat" UI design is FAR better and actually feels unique, just like early iOS that had a FAR better touch-oriented UI than Symbian S60v5.
iOS 7 feels like a very me-too Android wannabe, catered for fashion and developer wants, not for users.
Did you stomp your feet and cross your arms as you posted this?
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I got software that won't run on Windows 95.
You should make a thread about it!
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Problem solved! Now go sit on your nap mat and drink your juice box.
Not understanding the Dev part of Apps, I know the Dev part of building websites and digital components. It could, very well be, Laziness on the developers part OR it could be Efficiency.
I know there are some "modern" things we want to do don't always work on older browsers...mainly an IE issue...but there are times even the last release cannot handle something that other browsers and the latest version can handle.
But, hard to know exactly what was going on here with MS Office.