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Re: A few pixels here and there, and iOS 7 is beautiful

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Post by Yetanfou » Sat, Jun 15, 2013, 11:44 PM UTC

Reading that page gave me an acute case of adjectivitis. Just the first sentence contains 4 adjectives:

'Apple finally revealed its highly anticipated iOS 7 operating system, dramatically redesigned by legendary designer Jony Ive.'

Followed by:

'It’s stunning.'

I notice this writing - and speaking - style occurs frequently by those enamoured by Apple products, probably a result of listening to a few too many Jobs speeches. It is also rather distracting in that it makes it hard to take the message for granted as it comes across more like religious fervour than objective thought. May I suggest ditching the adjectives for a more toned-down style?

Re: A few pixels here and there, and iOS 7 is beautiful

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Post by StevenRayOrr » Sat, Jun 15, 2013, 11:44 PM UTC

czhiddy wrote: post #8

These articles are largely pointless, since taste is subjective. For instance, I find a few of Leo's icons to look slightly better and a few to look slightly worse. Going down the page, JustD's, Zane's, and Ida's icon sets look worse overall, in my opinion.

For those interested, the Dribbble pages linked in the post contain actual conversations about what works and what does not (as well as justifications for both that go beyond "because I said so"). I tend to favour that over the style of the blog post which seems to be saying, "these are better than Apple's icons, because I like them more".

Re: A few pixels here and there, and iOS 7 is beautiful

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Post by Falling3 » Sun, Jun 16, 2013, 4:34 AM UTC

Yetanfou wrote: post #11

Reading that page gave me an acute case of adjectivitis. Just the first sentence contains 4 adjectives: 'Apple finally revealed its highly anticipated iOS 7 operating system, dramatically redesigned by legendary designer Jony Ive.' Followed by: 'It’s stunning.' I notice this writing - and speaking - style occurs frequently by those enamoured by Apple products, probably a result of listening to a few too many Jobs spe…

This really jumped out at me as I was looking through the article. I tried to staved off judgement because I really don't know much about the state of iOS and whether significant changes are coming with the next release. With that said, it definitely smacks of fanboyism. Can anyone comment on how warranted his hype is?