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you want an...android?
Yes, but without the complete lack of consistency between what the home button does in an any given app.
It always, without a single exception, returns to the launcher.
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"iOS is stagnant" iOS only seems stagnant because they don't have to trumpet every year about how they've finally gotten rid of ui lag or completely overhauled the system appearance. These are points in it's favor to most people.
iOS only seems stagnant because they don't have to trumpet every year about how they've finally gotten rid of ui lag.. You might not notice it, but, there is an eighth-of-a-second-ish delay between when you tap on most buttons and when the action occurs. An obvious (to me) example is when you tap on the back button on a navigation controller, and it takes a split second before anything happens.. It isn't much, but it…
Is that from touch down or touch up? Most controls respond on the release because holding down or dragging is a different action in many (maybe most) cases.
I'm not perceiving much lag between touch up and animation start on the back button of the UINavigationController.
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#103Hm. There were rumours about 18-24 months ago that Ive wanted out of Apple. I wonder if this decision is a consequence of that previous discord. I also wonder what this means for the future of hardware design at Apple. If Ive must now look after both the hardware and the software, he must be less hands-on in the day-to-day work on individual designs. Does this imply that Apple are not expecting to iterate on the hard…
> If Ive must now look after both the hardware and the software, he must be less hands-on in the day-to-day work on individual designs.
What this means is that, Ive now gets to chose people and those who do that in turn report to him.
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#104"I wouldn’t read anything more into Browett’s departure than that Tim Cook knows how to recognize a mistake and correct it. (Although it was Cook who hired Browett in the first place.)" Good leaders know when to change their mind. I actually have more respect for Cook being able to recognize that John Browett was not a good fit after personally hiring him.
Cook seems like the kind of CEO who accepts he's imperfect, and rather than justifying a bad decision and keeping someone around will do what needs to be done. Good thing for a leader of a company the size of Apple.
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I'd like to see Intents or Contracts or something so that apps can reasonably an reliably communicate. The walled gardens that iOS has is fairly obnoxious. I have both an iPhone and Nexus 7, and I keep forgetting on N7 that sharing to Evernote doesn't require laborious app switching and cut and pasting. It's a very real, important piece of the puzzle that Apple hasn't even bothered trying to attempt.
Well, actually they are aware of this and they might introduce an interesting concept in iOS7: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...
Thanks for posting that, I wasn't aware that they were using XPC for the Mail sheet, etc. Hopefully we'll see some neat things next year.
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"iOS is stagnant" iOS only seems stagnant because they don't have to trumpet every year about how they've finally gotten rid of ui lag or completely overhauled the system appearance. These are points in it's favor to most people.
iOS is stagnant or mobile OSs are stagnant? Android was listing screen capture as a new feature not long ago which hardly suggests a breakneck pace of change across the board. Windows phone tiles are interesting but they don't feel game changing. Is this an iOS thing or wider than that? Genuine question because if it was iOS alone then surely it would be eating Android's dust right now and that doesn't feel like it's…
iOS IS stagnant.
Windows Phone 8 has a totally different and new paradigm going with merging start screen and "notifications bar" with the live tiles. Rooms with its "all sharing feature". Kids stuff. Lockscreen apps. All of these are a totally new approach to the mobile platform.
I feel the "new Microsoft" is really innovating(i hate that word) atm.
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#107I'll be interested to see how Ive's does. He is, undoubtedly, hugely talented - as is the team he's built at Apple.
However the work that he's done is all about Industrial Design, which operates under many different constraints from the software world.
From the Apple folk that I know Ive and his team currently seem to run a bit like an in-house agency rather than being 'part of Apple'. I wonder if they'll try and continue that way - or become more integrated with general product development.
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#108"One of the things I admire about Apple is their plainspokenness"
What?
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I want widgets on the desktop and/or on the lock screen (as a developer api), sideloading applications, some way to store data accessable to any app, a phone number black or whitelist, and a way for users to allow an app to do arbitrary tasks in the background or refuse any app from doing the Apple-allowed tasks in the background. Oh, and keyboards, developers should be allowed to make keyboards. Then there are a ton…
I'd like to an "Add to Home Screen" feature for phone contacts for one-tap dialing (like you can with browser bookmarks).
Wouldn't this just clutter up an already crowded home screen? I like the Favourites list in the phone app as it is.
I suppose you could put Favourites as a folder on the home screen, but that would defeat the purpose since you're back to two taps for a call.
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iOS is stagnant or mobile OSs are stagnant? Android was listing screen capture as a new feature not long ago which hardly suggests a breakneck pace of change across the board. Windows phone tiles are interesting but they don't feel game changing. Is this an iOS thing or wider than that? Genuine question because if it was iOS alone then surely it would be eating Android's dust right now and that doesn't feel like it's…
iOS IS stagnant. Windows Phone 8 has a totally different and new paradigm going with merging start screen and "notifications bar" with the live tiles. Rooms with its "all sharing feature". Kids stuff. Lockscreen apps. All of these are a totally new approach to the mobile platform. I feel the "new Microsoft" is really innovating(i hate that word) atm.
The Windows Phone UI is the one thing in my mind that actually is different, though I have a little skepticism about it as I'm not convinced that it's solving a problem many people actually have (certainly not one I or most people I know have) and it doesn't seem to be something consumers are queuing up to get their hands on. Meaningful innovation surely has to be something for which there is a demand?
Kids corner I would love on my iPhone but it's a more polished version of what I can do with restrictions so I'm not really sold on it being that revolutionary.