And still no official WebGL support...
iOS 7
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Re: iOS 7
#262Earlier quoted context omitted.
This isn't Apple's UI, it's everybody who owns an iDevice's UI, and it looks like people are taking this redesign quite personally...time to switch? :/
I think I'd still prefer to look at iOS7 everyday than the turd of an interface that Android ships with
Honestly, theyre starting to look very similar.
Re: iOS 7
#263Two things I hope to see in Android here, multitasking UI and tabbed notifications. After Google poached WebOS staff, their card UI is really nice and pretty Palm-like. For some reason they haven't shamelessly stolen the WebOS multitasking UI like Apple just have. I really hope they do, because it'd fit Android perfectly. That notification bar is really nice too, although it seems to be missing quick actions like And…
What do you mean? Android has a perfectly servicable multitasking UI already. https://developer.android.com/design/media/ui_overview_recen...
Heh, this comment failed to post when HN was constantly erroring, and I posted a much more toned down version. I just prefer the orientation and layout of the webOS and iOS ones, especially on a tablet.
Re: iOS 7
#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Did they do any kind of usability / legibility studies on the thinner typeface? I mean, I mostly use my phone to read email. Why would they reduce contrast on the default text and make it even harder to read?! Just because you have higher resolution screens, doesn't mean you can get away with a thinner sans serif. What's the point if everyone has to increase the size of the text to read it?
> Just because you have higher resolution screens, doesn't mean you can get away with a thinner sans serif. Yes, it does, actually. As resolution increases, so does the Nyquist frequency, which means you can accurately convey higher-frequency signals. In spatial terms, more resolution means finer lines without aliasing errors.
A 0.01mm line is going to be invisible on a super high res is going to be pretty much invisible, regardless of Nyquist frequencies.
Re: iOS 7
#265Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know why someone would use a liveblog when they offered a very capable livestream. Also quite the rookie mistake considering the AMD logo they showed had "FireGL" written right on it.
Livestream from Apple was OSX-only.
More like Safari-only. I couldn't watch it on Chrome on OSX (unless I changed my user agent to Safari)
Re: iOS 7
#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same can be said for Windows Phone.
That nobody in the real world has actually tried it yet? Fair enough. But I remember when Apple first made the iTunes icons monochromatic, and everyone complained that they'd no longer be able to distinguish the icons. People seemed to adapt pretty quickly though.
> That nobody in the real world has actually tried it yet?
Surely someone somewhere has bought a Windows phone ;)
Re: iOS 7
#267Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. Did they do any kind of usability / legibility studies on the thinner typeface? I mean, I mostly use my phone to read email. Why would they reduce contrast on the default text and make it even harder to read?! Just because you have higher resolution screens, doesn't mean you can get away with a thinner sans serif. What's the point if everyone has to increase the size of the text to read it?
> Agreed. Did they do any kind of usability / legibility studies on the thinner typeface? No, of course they didn't. Apple is widely acknowledged in the industry as having amateurish design and an utter lack of anything resembling perfectionism or attention to detail. Seriously, this may be a flop from them, but I cannot comprehend the mindset that would surmise they did no usability testing off a few screenshots.
If they did usability testing with a wide range of people, I am pretty sure one of them would have leaked the design. I'm not sure how would have done usability testing with non-employees.
Re: iOS 7
#268Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is Apple marketing material they've made available. It's perfectly valid to make judgements from that in my opinion.
Those are screenshots of a beta! How categorically can you judge something until you have the final release in front of you?
One of the big reasons to put something through a beta is so people will judge it before its final release
Re: iOS 7
#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't the whole point of flat design replacing the loud superfluousness of skeuomorphism's textures with equally jarring psychedelic colour schemes? That's how designers prove their worth, by adding more stuff, right?
Except neither Android nor WP8 follow that assumption/conclusion.
And neither does iOS 7.
I mean, where do you see the: "jarring psychedelic colour schemes"?
If anything the grant-parent brings up the example of the Control Center, which is the opposite of that, just a two-color subdued thing.
Re: iOS 7
#270One thing that I find a little jarring is going from a dark background to a light background. It might not be so much of an issue on a small device / screen, but it's the kind of thing that you feel in your eyes - if say you were looking at it in the dark. I'd probably rather one, or the other. Or be able to flip between the two styles.