Apple io7

Sad system, IMO, and the opinions of many others I know. It makes great strides in removing the visual beauty that Steve Jobs gave us. This version is flat, dead, and much more Dos like.

Oh sure, it's got some nice improvements, but the beauty has been stripped away.

Not sure how it is like dos in any way.

My ipad mini certainly is a lot less snappy with it though. I will be removing it today.

Edit- or not, apparently you can no longer downgrade to ios6

I really don't get this. A guy at my office was saying the same thing. I guess I don't agree that bubble effects and drop shadows are the One True Path to design perfection. The new one is different. Some things are better, some things are not, but it does look more modern and functions better overall. At least it seems like it's actually designed for the retina displays now. I can see old people with bad eyes being mad about the more minimal typefaces. There is a fix for that in settings if that's your problem, though.

I don't see or get the fussing about the floating icons myself.

I said dos like because its not even more windows like, its more sterile and stripped down than that. The keyboard, tabs, commands, etc.

Kinda funny, in a sad way, how microsoft and apple are chasng each others taiil.

I figured this would happen when Steve Jobs died.

foxtrapper wrote: I figured this would happen when Steve Jobs died.

Oh, please. For one thing, Jobs, for all his clarity of vision, was not an industrial designer. Short of giving concepts a thumbs up/thumbs down he did not have anything to do with the physical design of products. But guess who did... Jonathan Ive. He has been apple's product design guru since the original iMac (in other words, since the start of the second ascent of Jobs). Ive has had primary responsibility for most of apple's product design for 15+ years, but ios7 is the first time that he has been the guy in charge of OS/human interface design as well. So to assert that the OS redesign performed by Jobs' golden boy, the guy who a lot of people think had as much to do with apple's resurgence as Jobs, is some sort of travesty that never could have happened while Jobs was alive is pretty silly.

I dont mind it. As a matter of fact, I see a lot of improvements that came with the new iOS, most of them are little details that make a difference.

The blue snooze button is 10x better, along with the countdown timer.

The calendar works great and the weather app is much cleaner.

The menu that you bring from the bottom of the screen is very helpful as well.

The camera is a huge upgrade.

I dont mind the looks of the icons.

I didn't care for the update on my iPhone 4S at all. It really slowed everything down, the colors/fonts of texts were much more difficult to read, and the new version of Safari seemed seemed to offer change as solely a means to be different.

However, we were well past due for phone upgrades - which I'd been dreading due to 3-phones x $200 each wasn't going to be cheap. . But with Best Buy offering the 5c for $50 after discount/gift-card, it was kind of a no-brainer. We just got them yesterday, but as expected IOS7 works so much better on the new hardware.

In reply to Josh:

Not really, as Steve was the ultimate controller. Now he's not.

You may not realize it, but Apples been down this path before. It didn't go well.

And let's be fair about the importance, or not, of being a pedigreed design engineer. Raymond Loewy is the best there ever was. He wasn't pedigreed either. He was just good. So was Steve.

Works fine on my regular 4. My says her battery life is better on a regular 4. Regular iphone4's can't do all the animation trickery.

foxtrapper wrote: In reply to Josh: Not really, as Steve was the ultimate controller. Now he's not. You may not realize it, but Apples been down this path before. It didn't go well. And let's be fair about the importance, or not, of being a pedigreed design engineer. Raymond Loewy is the best there ever was. He wasn't pedigreed either. He was just good. So was Steve.

Don't you Blaspheme in here!!!!

Dear Steve, forgive them for they know not what they say.

LOL

I like it. I understand the design language that Ive was going for and the move to push design to the background and make the interface seamless and unobtrusive. It makes more sense, it easier to understand and is more visually mature.

What I don't like are the Microsoft-style elements. Like taking swipe-right to delete and changing it to swipe-left. Why? Oh just to be different and eliminate years of muscle memory. Your welcome. Steve would not have allowed crap like that.

My wife just did the upgrade... I like it. But, probably because it looks just like my DroidX did 5 years ago when I switched.

You know all those people that bitch everytime a magazine changes their design (apparently because editorial art directors would get layed off if they didn't do this)?

iOS gives those folks something new and equally useful to gripe about

Haven't updated either my 4S or New iPad to iOS 7, and won't be until it's been jailbroken (fairly likely for those older devices). Frankly the only real thing that I CAN'T do already that iOS 7 added is iTunes Radio- everything else can pretty much be handled via Jailbreak tweaks. Hell, the drag-up menu with all the controls is essentially SBSettings.

The GF has an early-2013 iPod Touch I gave her for her birthday that she had me update to iOS 7 so she could use iTunes Radio on it after she found she liked it from trying it out on the AppleTV. There have been some teething issues with it as some things have been moved around and changed, but overall she's happy with it and likes how much faster things seem to react.

Haven't found speeds to be appreciably better on the piddle pad. The multiple apps or tabs open and running upgrade just doesn't seem to be. Games and apps could run in the background before, and they still do. Multiple tabs laid there before, and still do.

I don't find anything earthshatteringly wonderful in the upgrade. Just not nearly as pretty. I like pretty, it was a hallmark of apple products for many years.

Maybe it's a conspiracy between Apple and Microsoft to drive us all to Linux.

I like it well enough on my 4S. Typing slowed down, but everything else got a bit better.