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Re: Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Post by coldtea » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 3:09 PM UTC

currysausage wrote: post #74

coldtea wrote: post #72

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> Really, it's apple, they've peaked already. Show me the new cool thing. That is just conventional wisdom. Who said they have "peaked already"? Three objections: 1) People would have said the same thing pre iPhone ("oh, they have peaked with the iPod"), and pre-iPad. And they indeed said it. 2) This iPad thing isn't even 2 years old. Yes, you read that correctly. It was introduced LESS than 2 years ago (actually clo…

> It was introduced LESS than 2 years ago (actually closing to 2 years any day now, it was on late march 2010). ? ;)

Ooops, that should be "LESS than 3 years ago, closing to 3 any day now". It was introduced on April 2010.

Re: Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Post by scott_karana » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 5:33 PM UTC

coldtea wrote: post #90

fpgeek wrote: post #78

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Citation please? Cannot seems like an unreasonably strong claim. Given the way older iOS devices are often sluggish on newer OS releases, it seems entirely possible that the animations on the switched-from device were slower and less smooth than the animations on the switched-to device.

Citation? Here, both sides actually: http://www.inspiredgeek.com/2011/12/07/why-android-graphics-... https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJ... https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x... http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/12/android-lag-attributed-to...

The latest of those citations is December 2011. They may not reflect the current state of the Android OS.

Android 4.1 and 4.2, codenamed "Jelly Bean", have been released since that time, with a "Project Butter" specifically aiming at GUI smoothness.

I haven't had a chance to use anything newer than 4.0, myself, so I'm merely pointing this out. It could be the same for all I know.

Re: Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Post by emehrkay » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 10:20 PM UTC

ishansharma wrote: post #39

And please get rid of that ridiculous blue! Anyone using Messages, Mail and Contacts on iPhone has this eye soar sticking right in front. How in the world can someone pick such a strange color and then add that stranger blue bar(I know its automatic) at top. I would be happy to see flat design, but in increments only. And maybe it is time for Apple to leave "best for beginners" ideology and care a bit about advanced…

Isn't blue one of the "safer" color blindness colors? Isn't that why Facebook is blue?

Re: Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Post by sbuk » Fri, Mar 22, 2013, 10:42 PM UTC

scott_karana wrote: post #92

coldtea wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation? Here, both sides actually: http://www.inspiredgeek.com/2011/12/07/why-android-graphics-... https://plus.google.com/100838276097451809262/posts/VDkV9XaJ... https://plus.google.com/105051985738280261832/posts/2FXDCz8x... http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/12/android-lag-attributed-to...

The latest of those citations is December 2011. They may not reflect the current state of the Android OS. Android 4.1 and 4.2, codenamed "Jelly Bean", have been released since that time, with a "Project Butter" specifically aiming at GUI smoothness. I haven't had a chance to use anything newer than 4.0, myself, so I'm merely pointing this out. It could be the same for all I know.

Project butter did nothing for the Nexus S, which in my experience has been mady worse with Jelly Bean.

Re: Apple’s Jony Ive Pushing iOS Interface Team For ‘Flat’ Design

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Post by sbuk » Sat, Mar 23, 2013, 7:06 AM UTC

DigitalSea wrote: post #71

The sad thing about this if it's true is that people will most likely claim Apple are some revolutionary company that invented flat design when Microsoft brought it to the commercial mainstream first before anyone else did. Flat design is in my opinion, Swedish design. The swedes have been designing with a flat perspective long before Microsoft or anyone else made it a trend.

Even sadder is that you feel the need to take ownership on behalf of someone else. Ultimately, it simply doesn't matter.