I'm still curious what they're going to do about these apps: Find my friends, Airport Utility, Apple Remote, iTunes Connect Mobile, Apple Store.
iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel
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#72Anyone else wobble their Macbook back and forth to see if the background shifts in response? (it doesn't)
Going to https://beta.icloud.com/?crazyAwesome does give you a similar (exaggerated) effect you can play around with using your cursor.
I'm curious; how did you know that?
Edit: Ah, of course it's in the source.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Going to https://beta.icloud.com/?crazyAwesome does give you a similar (exaggerated) effect you can play around with using your cursor.
I'm curious; how did you know that? Edit: Ah, of course it's in the source.
Yeah, just poking around curious as to how they were implementing the animation.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would a JS library to show maps on the web come at the same time as a Maps app?
The Maps app could use the JS library for rendering. It's possible the app could have a chrome with different features, but use Web Kit to render the actual map.
% otool -L /System/Library/Frameworks/MapKit.framework/MapKit | grep Web
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#75Correction: iCloud Beta Incorporates windows (Metro) look and feel.
Except not at all. This has a very different look and feel. Everything with a modern design is not a copy of Metro. Windows wasn't the first to do flat designs, and most designs (like this) that people say look like metro don't resemble it.
There is a reason people say some designs look like metro: because they do. To the untrained eye, Helvetica Neue and Segoe look very similar; text-heavy flat designs using very similar fonts look very similar. Microsoft might not have been the first to bring this sort of concept to life (they weren't), but they certainly popularised it by virtue of their mainstream reach and their dramatic departure from previous design choices.
I'm not saying Apple hasn't improved the concept with gradients, shadows etc, but denying that Metro was a big influence on the iOS redesign is just unrealistic.
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#76I'm still curious what they're going to do about these apps: Find my friends, Airport Utility, Apple Remote, iTunes Connect Mobile, Apple Store.
Probably update them after iOS7 ships.
It wouldn't surprise me if they are in the same position as external developers i.e. have to wait until iOS7 GM before the App Store will accept the binary.
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except not at all. This has a very different look and feel. Everything with a modern design is not a copy of Metro. Windows wasn't the first to do flat designs, and most designs (like this) that people say look like metro don't resemble it.
There is a reason people say some designs look like metro: because they do. To the untrained eye, Helvetica Neue and Segoe look very similar; text-heavy flat designs using very similar fonts look very similar. Microsoft might not have been the first to bring this sort of concept to life (they weren't), but they certainly popularised it by virtue of their mainstream reach and their dramatic departure from previous des…
Sorry but nobody who has actually spent time with WM7 and iOS7 can possibly think they are related.
The iOS7 design is about layering, transparency and minimalism. WM7 is far more about its distinctive rectangular, high contrast design.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a reason people say some designs look like metro: because they do. To the untrained eye, Helvetica Neue and Segoe look very similar; text-heavy flat designs using very similar fonts look very similar. Microsoft might not have been the first to bring this sort of concept to life (they weren't), but they certainly popularised it by virtue of their mainstream reach and their dramatic departure from previous des…
Sorry but nobody who has actually spent time with WM7 and iOS7 can possibly think they are related. The iOS7 design is about layering, transparency and minimalism. WM7 is far more about its distinctive rectangular, high contrast design.
When people talk about Metro, they usually talk about Windows 8.
I'm not denying that there are differences; what I'm saying is that any Joe Average, asked whether iOS7 looks like Metro or iOS6 or any other OS before them, would say Metro.
There is nothing wrong in admitting influences in art, complete originality is a just a silly myth.
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#79I guess it's a nice design but I really think it's wrong, really wrong to design a webapp like a native app and their apps look empty. For instance, I personally don't care about different kinds of templates in Pages, what I want is collaboration between different users, this is the whole point of the internet to enable synchronization, live updates and sharing... And imitating a desktop with sticky notes on it, it's…
LOL. You're not looking for an Office product from Apple then. And I say that as a happy buyer of Apple products, but come on. Emulating old school products and putting finesse above functionality? What else did you expect?
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Except not at all. This has a very different look and feel. Everything with a modern design is not a copy of Metro. Windows wasn't the first to do flat designs, and most designs (like this) that people say look like metro don't resemble it.
But it is Microsoft who made it trendy among web designers and even influenced Apple. Ironically this trend started by a company which was remarked as "tasteless" by Steve Jobs.
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