Am I the only one?
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The more I use it the more I like it. I think that by the time it goes live it will be brilliant. I can't see it taking making android users away from their phones but what is the point of having two companies with the same philosophies when it comes to their OS's.
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Been trying my friends iPhone with ios7 and I have to say its so much better in person, tbh the screenshots make it look a lot worse.
A few parts I didn't like but wouldn't be too difficult to change it, the overall UX is a big leap forward and I feel its more important that they got that right, there is a very clear direction and it just needs a bit of polish. The icons are a bit crap thou.
A few parts I didn't like but wouldn't be too difficult to change it, the overall UX is a big leap forward and I feel its more important that they got that right, there is a very clear direction and it just needs a bit of polish. The icons are a bit crap thou.
It's the first time I've been able to get access to all of the WWDC content via their iOS app, and as a fledging iOS developer, watching some of the videos of the new APIs available in iOS 7 they've really put a lot of thought into how developers should be creating their apps in the future. I particularly like how Dynamic Type works. Interesting stuff.
I think that, like many things, the art style is very different but it will grow on you. I'm starting to get used to it now, it is a tad on the bright side, but that's just because I'm using the brighter dynamic default wallpaper so can't really complain, the darker one would soon sort it.
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Yeah, the theme layer if its coded properly is easy to change but the fundamental UI is a much bigger job and they have a good step forward.
A few things, notification center really needs to use swipe to clear the 'x' is harder then ever to hit and is very faint, control center is a bit to packed, its very unlike apple to stuff everything they can into a small area. Not a big fan of the different split views, and there needs to be glacable information, they have done it with the clock but I would like something like Dashclock on android where I can have the widget on my lock screen and it just list some key info e.g. calender, next alarm, weather and it looks really good and I feel fits perfectly with the new UI.
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I'm curious what iOS 7 will look like on a black iPhone - I haven't seen a single image, official or not, that isn't on a white one. Would be really great if, by final release stage, the translucency was more of a smoky grey on black phones ...
The more I look at those icons the worse they get. The rest of the OS seems fine but my word... those icons. I hate to be 'that guy' and I don't say this lightly, but I don't think Steve Jobs being as particular as he was would have let them see the light of day. They look like placeholders.
Why didn't they just make the app icons circles? They're introducing circles to the UI all over the place, even in OSX. I can only assume they tried it and it badly mangled all the third party app icons and looked horrendous, but even that could be sorted with a quick update.
In its current form it's a mess, and I'm a little bit shocked if this is an actual realisation of Ive's vision.
Why didn't they just make the app icons circles? They're introducing circles to the UI all over the place, even in OSX. I can only assume they tried it and it badly mangled all the third party app icons and looked horrendous, but even that could be sorted with a quick update.
In its current form it's a mess, and I'm a little bit shocked if this is an actual realisation of Ive's vision.
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Given there's probably a good few months until the proper release, I wouldn't be surprised to see them change. Apple don't tend to publically acknowledge general consensus of likes/dislikes, but I have no doubt they'll be looking at what people are saying and will make changes if need be.
It's early days though, this is a clean slate of the OS to an extent and even if they haven't gotten certain things right off the bat, the meat and potatoes is an improvement and something like how some of the icons look... I don't doubt they'll be completely different within a year or two.
It's early days though, this is a clean slate of the OS to an extent and even if they haven't gotten certain things right off the bat, the meat and potatoes is an improvement and something like how some of the icons look... I don't doubt they'll be completely different within a year or two.
The thing that totally looks horrendous to me (and would turn Steve Jobs insane) is the way they replaced the back menu button at the top left with just text. BIG text. Which then pushes the centre-aligned text further to the right. Looks totally naff.
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The thing that totally looks horrendous to me (and would turn Steve Jobs insane) is the way they replaced the back menu button at the top left with just text. BIG text. Which then pushes the centre-aligned text further to the right. Looks totally naff.
Indeed, it's a typography no no.
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Those signal dots look ****.
Yeah it was one of the first things I noticed when I installed the beta, as it stood out like a sore thumb.
It's funny, the more I watch some of the WWDC videos the more I'm impressed by how deep they've developed the new APIs surrounding the updated interface in iOS 7, but then they go and pull stupid oversights like this in there.
Bezels around navigation buttons still have their place in modern UI design, and there was nothing wrong with them in iOS before, as longer labels were just truncated. You can argue this is just skirting around the issue (that is, long names on navigation items is a big no no) but they've gone the wrong way about it.
On a brighter note, the new Mac Pro is very innovative (and looks almost exactly like a brabantia bin)
Fixed that for you.
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The thing that totally looks horrendous to me (and would turn Steve Jobs insane) is the way they replaced the back menu button at the top left with just text. BIG text. Which then pushes the centre-aligned text further to the right. Looks totally naff.
It is still the first beta don't forget
It is far from polished and I doubt this would make it into the final version
