The part that most worries me is that this doesn't seem like such a different interface from things I've already seen.
What happened to the "Think Different" Apple?
iOS 7
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Re: iOS 7
#222I realize that a lot of people will be focusing on the UI redesign for iOS 7, but the standout thing for me was automatic updates from the App Store. I think it's a huge thing for developers. One of the biggest pains I think we face as developers is software fragmentation. So far Apple has done a very good job of having users update versions of iOS and keeping consistent with hardware specifications - it's probably o…
Hand in the air, I don't have an iPhone. Really, they only just introduced auto-updates on iOS? Wow...
Re: iOS 7
#223First feeling when i saw the icons: Shock! I still can't believe they came up with this mix of ios+windows+android UI. The whole thing looks like the phone of a 16y old girl. with candy on top. and syrup. As for the OS part, i think i no longer understand versioning.
But all the pundits will still lap this shit design up ...because its Apple. They've got some of the best designers on Earth, I just can't believe this is what they came up with for UI.
Re: iOS 7
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
seems pretty inconsiderate toward those with impaired vision. there's little contrast, lots of light gray on white with pastel accents.
I guess that's why for people with impaired vision, there's always been a High Contrast mode in iOS
Sssssshhhh, let the people whinge. They need to complain about something, don't contradict them with facts.
Re: iOS 7
#225I realize that a lot of people will be focusing on the UI redesign for iOS 7, but the standout thing for me was automatic updates from the App Store. I think it's a huge thing for developers. One of the biggest pains I think we face as developers is software fragmentation. So far Apple has done a very good job of having users update versions of iOS and keeping consistent with hardware specifications - it's probably o…
Yeah although a big question is: what will that do to battery life? People who install lots of gimmicky, frequently-updated apps and forget about them after trying them once will suddenly be at a loss as to why their device suddenly doesn't hold a charge as long as it did before. I fear the auto-update feature combined with multitasking will drastically reduce the typical battery life of an iOS device.
Nothing indicated that updates would be instantaneous. It can wait until the phone is plugged in. They also seem to have gone out of their way to minimize battery impact. Apps lifecycles are still controlled by the system, which can presumably decide to suspect those activities if things get dire.
Re: iOS 7
#226Aah ... It tastes Android :)
Re: iOS 7
#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs. The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple. If iOS 7 was leaked, people wouldn't believe it's the real thing. Sadly, it is. I'm staying with Windows Phone.
I'm not sure if flipping through 3D browser tabs mimics a real-life affordance.
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Re: iOS 7
#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
They tried to get away from skeuomorphism, but still some remains. Just look at PassBook or the ugly 3D browsing through tabs. The whole design simply is not well thought out. This has clearly been rushed, which is not something I expect from Apple. If iOS 7 was leaked, people wouldn't believe it's the real thing. Sadly, it is. I'm staying with Windows Phone.
I'm not sure if flipping through 3D browser tabs mimics a real-life affordance.
The limited flat/skeu vocabulary doesn't have a word for it, but it's what I'd call a depth cue.
(If you'll indulge me linking to my own article, I've tried to lay out a better framework here: http://interuserface.net/2013/05/flat-is-not-the-opposite-of...)
Re: iOS 7
#229I realize that a lot of people will be focusing on the UI redesign for iOS 7, but the standout thing for me was automatic updates from the App Store. I think it's a huge thing for developers. One of the biggest pains I think we face as developers is software fragmentation. So far Apple has done a very good job of having users update versions of iOS and keeping consistent with hardware specifications - it's probably o…
I couldn't agree with you more. There was huge version fragmentation for my apps, and this is going to totally take care of that. I had been thinking about doing some kind of hybrid web view thing to compensate for the lack of automatic updates. This is a huge win for me personally as well because I have like 24 app updates all the time. Still, it would be nice to have more composability in apps. I'm working on a UI…
I've been using the hybrid native/web approach to circumvent the downloads as well. I didn't go so far as push actual UI a la HTML to load in a webview, but I made dynamic native UIs that changed according to certain responses made on startup (think sending a news update with a picture url loaded into a UILabel/UIImageView)
The composability point is interesting. I like the idea of dependencies, and I've used url schemes to do it. You can test for whether or not an app is installed (given that it has a scheme) by testing invoking - (BOOL)canOpenURL:(NSURL *)url from UIApplication. Something interesting would be for Apple to require that each app have a custom URL scheme, and possibly generate them from a unique app identifier.
Re: iOS 7
#230I still can't get over the choice to push in Bing. I know that both companies are hoping that the collaboration is going to equal good things for both of them but really, it is likely going to go the other way.
That's another really baffling choice. Microsoft must be paying Apple a bundle in kickbacks in order to make Bing the default search. Trying to unite against Google? Yahoo and Bing did the same thing. I'm sorry, Bing still sucks, no matter how their commercials try to convince me otherwise.