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What? They did use Xeons, they said so right in the keynote.
I guess he confused that with the GPUs.
I was following The Verge because my live stream cut out on my AppleTV. Sorry about my confusion...
iOS 7
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Re: iOS 7
#372Oh God why. I've got nothing against flat design done well, but this just makes everything so much harder to SEE . Look at the example screen for "Control Center" -- it looks like a geometric indistinguishable mess . The line around buttons is the same as the line dividing sections is almost the same as the line in sliders. The example screen for weather shows thin white text against a light blue background, which I…
yeah, the thin, light text didn't look great during the presentation, but i can't imagine they wouldn't test it in bright sunlight/normal mobile phone situations, so I'm gonna wait til its actually out and in front of me to judge.
I'm inside and I find it straining to read the labels of the four dock apps. Of course I know what they are, but I always find low-contrast, Helvetica Superthin designer porn very insulting to the user. Either show something or don't.
Re: iOS 7
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Of course you can downgrade. You just can't downgrade after iOS 7 goes gold.
The copy right next to the download link explicitly says you can't. Blogs report otherwise, but that is a very fragile "of course".
Its always been possible, in the past (and now - i believe) you just need to enter dfu mode first, then restore it.
Re: iOS 7
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Are you seriously asking if Apple did usability testing for a design decision? Really?
Comments with "Really?" on the end are extremely disrespectful, and I see it all the time. Just because something is obvious and common-sense to you, does not mean it is to someone else. Offending someone is not a good form of persuasion. Please consider not doing that in future because you probably do have good ideas, and it would be nice if people heard them. Speaking of this design, the icons are asymmetric. More…
Good point about the 'really?', wasn't trying to get that effect.
Re: iOS 7
#375Apple is continuously playing catch up with iOS rather than innovating like they were known for in the Jobs era. Most of these features are just copies of other popular apps/operating systems that came out over a year ago.
I'm not sure whether you've had a look at the API diffs from 6.0 to 7.0 (or for that matter, 5.0 to 6.0) but they introduce a lot of incredible functionality with each release.
I code on competing platforms and the only one I truly enjoy creating on is iOS — I can make things move, manipulate video and audio, images and typography in ways that are simply not possible on other platforms.
If you play with the scrolling in the new messages app, for example, you will notice discrete physics and collision for each UI element within each table cell. It feels fantastic to scroll through. The new UIDynamics APIs are innovative and so simple to use.
Irrespective of how you feel about the consumer facing side of the OS, the developer facing side is really a thing of beauty (with the occasional warts like Core Data over iCloud, and Core Data migration models).
Re: iOS 7
#376Apple is continuously playing catch up with iOS rather than innovating like they were known for in the Jobs era. Most of these features are just copies of other popular apps/operating systems that came out over a year ago.
More like catchup to the jailbreak tweaks that came out 3 years ago.
Jailbreak tweaks are cool, but they certainly don't have the focus on battery life that Apple's implementations offer.
Re: iOS 7
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I have. I'm typing this from iOS 7. My opinion has changed little from seeing it on the Keynote to actually using it. Some graphic details don't seem as bad in person and others are much worse. On the plus side, it's very speedy. Plus, it makes existing 3rd party apps look glorious, with their attractive, last-generation looks.
Are you running the same iOS 7 as I am? "Very speedy" is the last thing I would call it. Every animation seems to have horrible lag on my iPhone 5. This early build doesn't seem to be optimized very much.
Yep, it's much speedier than iOS 6 on my Verizon iPhone 5, and I'm coming from the bias "WTF are you doing Apple?!". Like I said, the only performance issues I've noticed are with the parallax scrolling background, it's still a bit stuttery.
Re: iOS 7
#378Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have. I'm typing this from iOS 7. My opinion has changed little from seeing it on the Keynote to actually using it. Some graphic details don't seem as bad in person and others are much worse. On the plus side, it's very speedy. Plus, it makes existing 3rd party apps look glorious, with their attractive, last-generation looks.
Are you running the same iOS 7 as I am? "Very speedy" is the last thing I would call it. Every animation seems to have horrible lag on my iPhone 5. This early build doesn't seem to be optimized very much.
Yep, it's much speedier than iOS 6 on my Verizon iPhone 5, and I'm coming from the bias "WTF are you doing Apple?!". Like I said, the only performance issues I've noticed are with the parallax scrolling background, it's still a bit stuttery.
Re: iOS 7
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> the standout thing for me was automatic updates from the App Store Also makes a lot of sense from a user's perspective. Click-to-update is so last decade.
Except for limited banwidth connections. I don't want my copy of Baldurs gate on my iPad deciding to update itself while connected to a 3G hotspot
It's not hard to have switch somewhere in the settings, enabling/disabling auto-updates over cellular.
Re: iOS 7
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More like Safari-only. I couldn't watch it on Chrome on OSX (unless I changed my user agent to Safari)
Seriously, that was a little absurd. Why exactly does Apple want to limit its audience by only allowing people using Safari on OSX to watch it? I doubt all the markets are so saturated that every potential iPhone, Macbook, and Mac Pro customer is already on OS X. If I didn't happen to have a Macbook as a work PC for the summer, I'd have missed the Macbook Air announcement. But god, do I want one.
It's not about limiting the audience. HTTP Live Streaming is just a better technology. Watching the keynote it was blatantly obvious. I have more outright pauses in the average Youtube video than an HTTP Live Stream. It required some rapid and noticeable quality changes but I would much prefer that over the video simply dropping out entirely.
The technology is there and can be implemented: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
Most just choose not to. That's not Apple's fault, nor is it a reason to fall back to a worse technology that degrades the experience for all watching to help out those on other platforms.
For the record, it wasn't at all limited to "Safari on OS X". Any device or program that properly implements HTTP Live Streaming could easily view the keynote. Apple listed Safari on OS X, the Apple TV, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad as all being verified, but other devices supported it too.