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iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by khalidmbajwa »

myko wrote: post #9
phr4ts wrote: post #4

Correction: iCloud Beta Incorporates windows (Metro) look and feel.

Not really. Windows (Metro) is completely flat, there is no depth and it is very difficult to distinguish controls. The direction Apple is taking adds a bit of depth to help distinguish most controls, similar to Android design guidelines.

Honest question: What depth ? All i see is flat all around.

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Post by coob »

[deleted] wrote: post #14
famousactress wrote: post #5

Anyone else wobble their Macbook back and forth to see if the background shifts in response? (it doesn't)

[deleted]

MacBooks have had accelerometers since the titanium Powerbooks.

They were used to park the hard drive heads in the case of sudden movement.

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Post by flyosity »

[deleted] wrote: post #14
famousactress wrote: post #5

Anyone else wobble their Macbook back and forth to see if the background shifts in response? (it doesn't)

[deleted]

This is not true. MacBooks all have a Sudden Motion Sensor which has an API that will give you live accelerometer data. Here's a quick list of apps/games that use it:

http://modmyi.com/forums/mac-gaming/800715-sudden-motion-sen...

And here's an open-source Obj-C library to get the data:

http://www.suitable.com/tools/smslib.html

To access the data via JavaScript you can just listen for the "deviceorientation" event.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4378435/how-to-access-acc...

Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by TannerLD »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #11
cremnob wrote: post #2

I like the new look. They still need to update the iWork icons though.

They need to update the iWork suite as a whole. All the iCloud bits have the new UI (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Find my Phone) but the iWork bits all have old UI. Maybe it's going to be an overhaul of the iWork UI across all their systems?

In the keynote, they mentioned redoing the entire iWork suite later in the Fall.

Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by jbraithwaite »

khalidmbajwa wrote: post #21
myko wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Windows (Metro) is completely flat, there is no depth and it is very difficult to distinguish controls. The direction Apple is taking adds a bit of depth to help distinguish most controls, similar to Android design guidelines.

Honest question: What depth ? All i see is flat all around.

There are subtle gradients. Take a look at the tabs in the contacts icon. Or the (subtle) shadow under each icon.

Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by publicfig »

I've been hearing it since it was announced, and I've yet to see for myself, but I really am starting to agree that a lot of the disagreements with the design decisions of iOS7 will go away once people start using the OS. Of course, there are still elements that seem half-baked at best, but it's interesting to see how some of the interfaces really shine when it's your own information being displayed instead of screenshots of information you ignore. I'm actually excited to see how I adapt to the new changes once iOS7 come out.

(Yes, I am a developer and could install the developer preview, but I only have one iOS device right now and no way am I installing a developer beta on my one device)

Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by gbvb »

khalidmbajwa wrote: post #21
myko wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really. Windows (Metro) is completely flat, there is no depth and it is very difficult to distinguish controls. The direction Apple is taking adds a bit of depth to help distinguish most controls, similar to Android design guidelines.

Honest question: What depth ? All i see is flat all around.

:) It is the one that you see when it is built by Apple. Says the guy who buys everything Apple produces :)

Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by Aloisius »

UVB-76 wrote: post #22
smackfu wrote: post #12

Find My iPhone is still using Google Maps. Guess they don't have Apple Maps set up for web embedding.

This will likely come with OS X Mavericks, which will introduce a Maps app

Why would a JS library to show maps on the web come at the same time as a Maps app?

Re: iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel

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Post by btipling »

The wireframe icons, the blues in the mail, the red in the calendar. It looks interesting and terrible at the same time. I just don't like it. Maybe I don't because of the sparseness, starkness and of course the notorious gradients. Next to the iWork icons you can tell that the ios7 design update does make the old style look dated, but that doesn't mean it's appealing.
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