Adam Kos iOS 15 has only been here since September, with its first major update arriving alongside macOS Monterey last night. However, new systems may raise more questions than answers. Why?
Every year we have a new iOS, iPadOS and macOS. Features are piled on top of features, with few of them being the kind that will actually be used by the vast majority of users of a given system. The really big news are few and far between. It was the arrival of the App Store in 2008, the debugging of iOS for the first iPad in 2009, and a complete redesign in iOS 7, which came in 2013.
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We said goodbye to skeuomorphism, i.e. design imitating things from the real world. And although it was a controversial change at the time, it certainly doesn't come across to us today. Since then, Apple has constantly tried to make iOS and macOS similar so that the user can clearly jump from one to the other without the need for complex recognition of icons and application interfaces. But he never perfected it and it looks more like a schizophrenic driving it. That is, someone whose thought processes fail and leaves everything in progress halfway through.
iOS 7 design
I know the systems will never merge and I don't want to. But the macOS Big Sur operating system deployed a new interface that brought a lot, as well as new icons. But we didn't get those in iOS 14. We didn't even get them in iOS 15. So what is Apple doing to us? Will we finally see it in iOS 16? Maybe we'll still be surprised.
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Flying around the world with Apple Reverse logic
The iPhone 14 is to bring a significant redesign again, which should also include a redesign of its iOS 16 operating system. Whether we like it or not, the current iOS 15 is still based on the mentioned iOS 7, so it is dizzyingly old 8 years. Of course, small changes were made gradually, and not as suddenly as in the mentioned version, but this evolution has probably reached its peak and has nowhere to develop.
macOS Monterey
According to the portal's trusted sources iDropNews should the look of iOS mirror that of paid macOS. So it should have the same icons, which Apple says reflect a more modern look. With them, he is already abandoning the flat design and shading them more and rendering them spatially. Except for the icons, the control center is also to be redesigned, again within the framework of similarity with macOS and to some extent also multitasking. But is this unification effort appropriate?
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Amaya Toman iPhones outsell Macs by a significant margin. So if Apple goes the route of "porting" macOS to iOS, it doesn't make much sense. If he wanted to support computer sales, i.e. for iPhone owners to also buy their Macs, he should do it the other way around, so that iPhone users feel at home in macOS too, because the system will still remind them of a mobile system, which is, of course, more advanced. But if it didn't work, there would be a big halo around it again. By first applying the changes to a smaller sample of users, i.e. those who use Mac computers, Apple simply learns the feedback. So they have probably stabilized and the redesign on iOS is green lighted.
But maybe it's different
Apple has to introduce its foldable iPhone to the world sooner or later. But will it have the iOS system, when the potential of its large display will not be used, iPadOS, which would make more sense, or even macOS with its full capabilities? If Apple can fit the iPad Pro with an M1 chip, wouldn't it be able to do so in this case as well? Or will we see a completely new system?
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I have been using iPhone mobile phones since the 3G version. It is actually an advantage, because one could observe the development of the system step by step. I wouldn't change even if the system looked like it would, plus I like the design established with Big Sur. But then there are the users from the other side of the battlefield, i.e. Android users. And even if they have some reservations about their "parent" system, many will not switch to the iPhone not because of its price, the notch in the display, or because iOS ties them down too much, but because they simply find this system boring and simply do not enjoy it use it. Maybe Apple will actually change that next year.
Your life must be very sad.
Everything you comment is wrong...
We normal people work for it, we enjoy it and we don't deal with this....
Yep, this is exactly a slap comment. Just because the author deals with something you don't, it is necessary to immediately throw poisonous saliva. Bravo.
I probably wouldn't say that the author solves. He is dealing with". It's just blank text to fill the newspaper.
This article is schizophrenic. First he reports that he wants to unify everything, then he argues with himself about multitasking too. I didn't read it further…
Great reflection that I think reflects the current situation of IOS. Personally, the system suits me and I am not considering a change, but the change could be an interesting impulse for new users.
I will never get rid of the impression that iOS 6 was the best and Snow Leopard was a divine system. But the first thing these young people do is take a picture of their breakfast and send it to their friends - they will never understand.