On the one hand, something is clearly needed which "refreshes" the platform. On the other hand, you don't want to freak people out by changing everything. The OP's article seems to say that they are leaning to the latter. I guess we'll see. At the bare minimum, I hope they can get the weather app's temperature to show the real temperature.
I will say that the new Yahoo Weather app for iOS is very flat (all info in one screen.. which is "flat" to me but maybe I'm not using the term correctly) and it looks awesome.
http://reviews.cnet.com/software/yahoo-weather-ios/4505-3513_7-35739508.html
I immediately deleted the iOS weather app and move the new Yahoo Weather one in it's place and I never miss the old one. If the new interface looks anything like the redesigned Yahoo Weather app, then I'm all excited... and come to think of it, the new Yahoo Weather app does look a bit like Window's Metro... sort of.
there will definitely be people who wont like this changes. basically theyre going to make it more androidy in appearance, and some people, like my mom, like all that warm and fuzzy stuff that iphone has
Well I got an iPad 4 from the wife for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It's a great device and I'm enjoying it for the most part. That said, it is lacking quite a bit in the UI/functionality department vs. my Galaxy Nexus. It's a big sad actually. I want to love everything about it, but the UI feels so dated. I really hope iOS 7 is a big leap forward but have a feeling they are hyping up small changes that really won't do much. Fingers crossed though.
Who has a feeling this redesign is going to fall flat, just like their new Maps app did last year?
Well I got an iPad 4 from the wife for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It's a great device and I'm enjoying it for the most part. That said, it is lacking quite a bit in the UI/functionality department vs. my Galaxy Nexus. It's a big sad actually. I want to love everything about it, but the UI feels so dated. I really hope iOS 7 is a big leap forward but have a feeling they are hyping up small changes that really won't do much. Fingers crossed though.
Why are you so focused on Apple failing? It's like every year is a fail for you if it's not a go big event. Would you say Android 4.2 is a fail too? It barely brought anything new, and introduced quite a few bugs which aren't fixed today yet.
Well I got an iPad 4 from the wife for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. It's a great device and I'm enjoying it for the most part. That said, it is lacking quite a bit in the UI/functionality department vs. my Galaxy Nexus. It's a big sad actually. I want to love everything about it, but the UI feels so dated. I really hope iOS 7 is a big leap forward but have a feeling they are hyping up small changes that really won't do much. Fingers crossed though.
Choice!? From Apple!? Sacrilege!I'm wondering if Apple could try to appease both camps by releasing different themes--like one to match existing iOS, a flat one, a light one, a dark one, etc.
I hope they finally change up the interface, but I'm not sure how long term iOS users are going to feel about it.
The only feature I really would be ecstatic about is a lock time out, but I'm not holding my breath. I should be able to select a lock time-out period for when I manually lock the phone. It's a slight trade-off between security and the annoyance of constantly having to enter my pass code. Anybody who's had a conversation with a slow texter will understand what I'm saying. It's the limbo between leaving your screen on, and turning your screen off because your wasting battery waiting for the response, only to have the text come in 10 seconds after. If I could select i.e. a 5 minute lock time-out this would not be an issue. The lock time-out should not work together with the screen time-out though, only with manual locking.
A finger print sensor would be the best solution of course, but for older devices this would be the only way.
Anyways, here's to hope.
Settings > General > Passcode Lock > Require Passcode
That doesn't work for you? It defaults to immediately, I believe,but should be changeable to 1m, 5m, 15m, 1h or 4h. If you don't have those options, then are you attached to an Exchange server? If so, then the EAS Policy has been set to limit you from changing it.
So the "big change" I have to look forward to in iOS7 is how everything looks? Give me a break. They can keep the same look just give me some more functionality. I'm sure there are some new features, but that article spent about 90% of the time talking about what essentially seem to be graphics changes.
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Really!
Yes more is always better for the most part, but i fail to see how IOS is not functional enough.
:thumbsdown:
Really!
Yes more is always better for the most part, but i fail to see how IOS is not functional enough.
Setting default apps is a huge one.
Setting default apps is a huge one.
There can be more features sure, but it's not like iOS is not functional enough.
Not being able to set default apps is dumb. Having to jump through hoops just to play non-mp4 videos is dumb. Having to wait annually to get major features and updates is dumb.
Obviously if you choose weaknesses in iOS to highlight it can be dumb. It's not like Android doesn't have weaknesses that are just flat out dumb too. What's your point? That by highlighting weaknesses it means the OS is non functional?
I'm not saying either OS is perfect. They all have room to grow.