The swipe feature is awesome, and about the only thing I *need* from iOS7. Now that some apps are starting to use it, the o/s is starting to feel more integrated. The battery life remains appalling though.
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What I never understood about iOS 7 haters
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It's not about iOS 6 being exciting. It's about being satisfied by how your phone looks and works. In simple terms, I prefer the style and performance of iOS 6
What is there to like about iOS 7? It works in pretty much the same way as iOS 6, but im not a fan of ugly, half-hearted icons, worse battery life and worse performance.
What is there to like about iOS 7? It works in pretty much the same way as iOS 6, but im not a fan of ugly, half-hearted icons, worse battery life and worse performance.
iOS 7 does have more animations, if that is what you mean by "alive." All those did was make me feel dizzy, so I turned them off.
Animations aside I'm talking about the transparency, blurring and parallax effect. Which some feel is a gimmick but it does add to the life of the system. Sorry you are part of the one percent that actually got the motion sickness.
After reading the responses to my post I'm starting to see why people dislike iOS 7. Personally, I don't care for it that much, but I understand some of people's issues.
If your looking for apps to replace notes and reminders, try Notebooks 7 and Todo 7!
I can get used to a new caller ID after 7.1 update of iOS 7, this is a such stupid change I can`t believe it was meant for real by Apple designers. I think it`s worst UI change in OS to date, and I doubt, they will ever beat that, but one never knows..
But you are also looking at a biased sampling. You are talking about folks that post on sites like this (and thus more likely to bitch than praise cause that's the nature of such sites) and your friends.
There are literally millions of users out there who either love it, hate it, or don't care either way. Who knows what the numbers look like. But it's unlikely they resemble the 50/50 that your sampling produces.
Consistency! It had none.
Pool table felt in one, lined paper in another, faux mic in another, stitched leather in another...
I have to wonder if its been too long since you used it... Or you aren't using the word you think you are...
skeuomorphic gets a bad rap, but what was it replaced with?
gif style animations .
I will take skeuomorphic over Geocitiesesque graphics and transitional animated gifs any day.
I was reading in iBooks the other day, and I suddenly missed the skeumorphic "book" look and feel. The book borders might have taken up too much space, but I want a dividing line between the two pages in landscape mode, and I miss the page turn animation that actually looked like a book turning a page. Now the page turn animation is so fast you can't see it. I also miss Notes looking like a real notepad. Maybe it does not matter s much to younger people who grew up with everything being digital, but I find that skeumorphism, when done correctly, really increases my enjoyment of an app. Of course, the problem is that it's so easy to do it incorrectly, and then you have a hot mess.
Notes and iBooks are the only apps for which skeuomorphism was not bad at all. Especially iBooks.
While I do enjoy iOS 7 and prefer it over the previous versions, I do miss some of those things you mentioned. I think it made the experience more enjoyable.
I think most folks in general like iOS 7 and I would say in the real world it's 90/10. I gave my son the RTM of iOS 7 a week before it was release to the masses. All week he was the popular kid in school with crowds around him including teachers wanting to see. The day iOS 7 dropped, the school network was clogged due to everyone trying to get it OTA. In my small sampling, I never hear anyone complaining except when I jump on this website. I hear folks complaining about the music app and I still don't know what the hell the bitching is for. I use it all the time and it works great. Maybe I'm not using it like they are. If you went off this website, you would be left with the impression iOS 7 and the music app are the worst creations of mankind.
I'm content with iOS 7 and I don't feel the need to make a new thread on various forums to make that known. Maybe that's the difference?
Simple: I wanted to have a choice. I usually don't like "updates" if the stuff I have works for me. I kept around windows xp for as long as I could. Because it just worked. iOS 6 worked ok for the most part. I don't give a you know what about design gimmicks and such. But iOS 7 was forced down my throat by apple. That was to be expected when I entered the dark side of simplified consumer driven devices. But it's still a little annoying. But the worst part is that stuff doesn't work.
Email service and iMessage service crashes several times a week on me. And instead if fixing that all they seem to care about is buying some ghetto head phone company and build Samsung galaxy clones to attract markets of even more consumer application driven markets.
I very much miss my blackberry. I remember two outages over several years. My iphone craps out all the time. Otherwise I could care less about freaking design elements in any iOS version. Just make it work reliably.
So Apple should forget about simplifying design for all the developers, encourage fragmentation and make iOS 6 an option for a small minority of change hating folks like yourself? See with that thought process, the technology would never move forward. The world....
Furthermore, the issues you mentioned are clearly isolated to you or a small minority, but since you haven't made an effort to troubleshoot or get the device replaced, Apple is the blame for all your woes.
There are still quite a few people on iOS 6 and Apple is doing just fine. If you think that things will really fall apart if Apple let more people stay on iOS 6, then something isn't right somewhere to begin with, otherwise the ecosystem will live on just fine even with that.
Microsoft isn't deleting xp from your hard drive, yet it is at eol. Should apple have done the same with iOS 6? Live and let live?
Of course apple genius won't look at anything less than current, what to do from apples persoective.
Fall apart? Hardly. Become a hot mess like the Android platform? The potential would be there. I imagine developers would just stop developing for iOS 6 all together at some point though so maybe not.
Ultimately, Apple is trying to move the platform forward, not be stuck in neutral to cater to a very small minority.
Android is hardly a mess, let alone some hot mess. Doing just fine and forging ahead with more and more users. Clearly that must mean things are horrible for them, especially because of fragmentation. I get while Apple is doing it but it's must more because of their own interest than than anyone else's.
It's true android is forging ahead, but look at the most recent high-end offerings. While they are not for me, and I played around with the Verizon versions, they are very, very nice. They have cool, different features from IOS and is giving IOS some serious competition. (Of course iphones in the resale department are right up there)
I can see why apple does what it does, makes sense to me so they don't end up supporting multiple operating systems. (like Microsoft....how many operating systems did it support while XP was alive?)
I guess we can agree to disagree. Android fragmentation is a very real problem for Google and the developers. Most developers can't develop for the latest Android OS out and capitalize on the latest cool features because majority of the users are on an older platform. Google pushes ahead anyway and have now started to focus on reigning in fragmentation or at least minimize it.
I'm pretty sure most Android users and developers would prefer having the latest Android OS deployment similar to how Apple does it versus the way Google and the carriers do it now. If you say otherwise, then you aren't being honest with yourself and this forum.
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