I 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 unbelievable. I wonder if real people use their online apps, I can't imagine this is the case. All it shows to me is how much they don't get the Web and how much it's not in their DNA, it's scary.
iCloud Beta Incorporates iOS 7 Look and Feel
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
They need to update the iWork suite as a whole. All the iCloud bits have the new UI (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Find my Phone) but the iWork bits all have old UI. Maybe it's going to be an overhaul of the iWork UI across all their systems?
In the keynote, they mentioned redoing the entire iWork suite later in the Fall.
Did they? I don't remember that. Did they include the OSX suite in that, or just iOS?
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#43Correction: 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.
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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#44I have never understood why I can't get to photostream through this.
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#45I really like this redesign. The old one was horrible imo and I was worried they'd update iOS 7 and forget about iCloud (even though I don't use the website that often it would still bug me).
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#46I've been hearing it since it was announced, and I've yet to see for myself, but I really am starting to agree that a lot of the disagreements with the design decisions of iOS7 will go away once people start using the OS. Of course, there are still elements that seem half-baked at best, but it's interesting to see how some of the interfaces really shine when it's your own information being displayed instead of screen…
I've been using iOS7 since Beta 2, and I still hate it.
I don't like the look, but this might be personal. So putting this aside, to me iOS7 is actually harder to use. The flat buttons (which are just labels now) are harder to press. I do not know if this is psychological since they appear smaller, or is it that the target area is actually smaller now. Toggles are grayed out in their off state, so they appear disabled, as in "you are not supposed to be pressing it now" (see Speaker control in the Voice Memos app).
There are also a lot of other things they changed during the redesign for worse from my perspective. For example: in the Voice Memos app I used to be able to record and play back a sequence quickly. Now * I stop recording a sample * Press Done * Am forced to label it (why!!) * Expand the memo I just recorded (why is it collapsed - I am still working on it) * Hit play
I record 20+ samples a day I need to listen to quickly, and this is so frustrating.
There are other things like this throughout the OS. In calendar for example you can't expand the Notes on the meeting, so god forbid someone puts important meeting information there.
It seems to me like people at Apple actually stopped using their phones. These little things scream at you once you actually try to get something done.
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#47I 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…
>> "For instance, I personally don't care about different kinds of templates in Pages, what I want is collaboration between different users"
On the other hand I'm sure a lot of people do care about templates and would never use collaboration. I'm one of them. I don't create text documents often and have never needed to collaborate on one. Collaboration seems like more of an enterprise/business feature to me and that's a market Pages really doesn't seem meant for.
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#48I like the new look. They still need to update the iWork icons though.
They need to update the iWork suite as a whole. All the iCloud bits have the new UI (Mail, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, Find my Phone) but the iWork bits all have old UI. Maybe it's going to be an overhaul of the iWork UI across all their systems?
It's strange they created it using the old look when it was presumably in development around the same time as iOS 7. I imagine the iWork team saw iOS 7 announced at the keynote and though "shit, why did nobody tell us?".
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the keynote, they mentioned redoing the entire iWork suite later in the Fall.
Did they? I don't remember that. Did they include the OSX suite in that, or just iOS?
Been a while since I saw it, but I believe they only mentioned something like that there would be "a new release of iWork this year". No specifics about how major it'll be (still "iWork '09"?) or whether that was OS X, iOS, or both.
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#50Interestingly it looks like they're still using Google Maps in Find My iPhone. I wish they'd also change the name of that seeing as it finds iPhone's, iPad's, and Mac's.