Michal Ždanský Apple yesterday released a kind of beta version of the iOS 7 mobile operating system, which finally brought support for the iPad. Although the beta version is intended exclusively for developers, many non-developers have installed iOS 7 on their iPads and are now disappointed with how the operating system looks on the tablet, or have seen pictures and videos and therefore come to the conclusion that iOS 7 for iPad will be a debacle .
You remember that They didn't build Rome in a day and iOS 7 in 8 months? Is it still valid. Many may have expected the second beta to change some of the criticized visuals and fix the annoying bugs that plagued iPhones in the first version. It partially happened, a lot of errors were corrected, and new, sometimes more serious ones appeared as well. However, the visuals remained largely unchanged. Why?
Given how quickly the second beta version appeared, it can be judged that the main task of software engineers was to bring the operating system to the iPad, in any form. Many have noted that iOS 7 on the tablet looks more like a stretched version for the iPad. Yes, that is a completely legitimate and true statement. As many developers may know, converting an iPhone application to an iPad is often a pain due to the significantly larger area that needs to be reasonably filled. On the one hand, use the space, on the other hand, don't overpay for it. Developers will spend months on the tablet port.
And that's probably why iOS 7 beta 2 looks the way it does on the iPad. In the beta phase, the single most valuable thing for Apple is feedback. Feedback from experienced iPad developers. The longer the beta is between developers, the more feedback Apple gets. That's probably why he rushed the second beta so much and left many elements as they are, so it looks to us like Apple engineers took the iPhone version and stretched it to a 9,7" or 7,9" display. By the way, the version of iOS 7 for iPad is not yet shown by Apple even on its official website, which also proves something.
iOS 7 for iPad, or iOS 7 in general, is anything but finished. And by far. There is a lot of time before the official public version is released in the fall, and a lot will change, quite drastically. The beta is not a representation of the official version, just the first (second) swallow, a torso if you will. If you want to really enjoy something from iOS 7, focus on the content, not the form. Explore the features and wait for the final look in the fall. Then there will be enough space for justified criticism.
I can't understand this apology to Pruser in the name of iOS7, what is going on around here. iOS7 is a breakthrough from a user point of view and a departure from everything that set Apple apart from the competition, it is a departure from PRECISION. iOS7 on the iPad is not at all surprised, even it copies this course somewhere in the woods, who expected a miracle is alive.
Arguing that it is a BETA and that it will change is quite a worthy attempt at consolation, but it has the drawback that if we look back at the iOS 2.x-6.x BETAs, we will find that from a couple of light changes, Apple never fundamentally changed the UI presented in the beta. This means only that the concept of any pages of the application that are visually distinguishable from each other WILL NOT change. The concept of crappy icons and notification/control centers will NOT change. Basically, what you see is plus/minus what comes out. Only the stability will improve, the health of the battery will decrease and maybe it will move here and there with some kind of fidget spinner. Alternatively, the icon or the SW button is shaded differently. But if someone is expecting a fundamental rebuilding, let's put it in BETE 3, etc. So I will disappoint them, just look at history. This is the new Apple, you'll get used to it. Impersonal, ill-conceived, tasteless. You can hope that it still "just works".
Sorry for the honesty.
But there are also a few flaws in your statement, namely that iOS from version 1.0 to version 6.X looked graphically identical, so it stands to reason that the beta versions really weren't that different. Second, if you look at the release notes, a million and one things have changed under the hood. And this is the advantage of MVC architectures, that it can work completely differently in the background, but if the View is not modified, nothing can be known. But you are certainly right that +- this is how the final version will look - better said, it will follow the same logic.
I have no doubt that there is a lot "under the hood". I take it more from the user's point of view, where I assess how I work with the device, how I perceive it as a user.
So, if I take it from Lockscreen for example:
why is there an up arrow under "slide to unlock"? Yes, I and everyone who uses iOS will understand that it refers to the Command Center, but it should NOT be there, because in principle it confuses the user, as far as I know, slide to unlock is not performed up, but to the side. This is UI nonsense that can be afforded by, for example, Android, where logic is not considered much, where it is more about having as many features under the roof as possible. At Apple, however, such nonsense was frowned upon. If something didn't make sense, it just didn't. Moreover, if the user understands that the slide up is for CC, then why remind him of this on the Lockscreen? I'll ignore the fact that the lockscreen, as a locked UI, is only meant for basic info and not for all sorts of Android settings, but what... the main thing is nonsense with the arrow.
Speaking of CC (but it also applies to NC), the purpose of notification bars and control bars is and has always been that it was an aggregate of information from the entire device, which served to prevent the user from having to search for all notifications all over the device. but to always find it in one place.
So, this notification center should be readable, right? It is so. And that means OPAQUE because it's distracting. The fact that they put a black thin font on the transparent milky glass in Apple is just the completion of the problem. The same goes for CC and also for Spotlight (!). If Ivo's boys had to necessarily put milk glass under the NC and CC, then at most only with false transparency, where the colored icons do not actually show through. Because the font is, by then, slightly lost... damn the fix work!!! (sorry, it had to be out :))
Another shoe in UX is the fact that the Music, iRadio, Calendar applications are on a white background with red elements. Music and iRadio are at least similar applications in function, but Calendar is not. Disturbing and most importantly, why? why so crumbly? Why not tint the basic plications in your colors so that it is clear at first glance that this is not a radio but a Music app, even across the street behind the window on the banner!!!! The old iOS could do that.
Icons... no comment. I only have one nerve.
I just started and I'm already screwed... you invest a lot of money in a platform that, as one of the few on the market, did not do rash things and measured everything 10 times before starting to solve it. And suddenly iOS7 comes, a messed-up mess that has no personality (it's a toss-up between Android and WP), contains logical nonsense and mainly destroys everything that made Apple Apple and thanks to which, for example, even these pages exist, i.e. thanks to the community that formed around him for a reason because he was different from a dozen companies.
Nothing, that's enough for those who haven't understood what I mean, so I wish them the best of luck with the next generation of Apple, I'm just wondering why you were with Apple until now? That philosophy was completely different.
I completely understand the concerns about this system, I'm afraid that the icing on the cake will be that it will be unusably slow on iPhone4, then it will be completely equal to Android.
I went to apple because I'm conservative, and this colorful mess really disappointed me. But I'll update right away anyway, because it doesn't make the slightest sense to postpone it (then I'll decide what to give).
Unfortunately, I have to agree, it needed a change, but then this looks like a mess, a lot of crazy bullshit and "mainly so that everyone likes them" style.
Perhaps the worst is the calendar, imessage and emails, so much is completely unclear.
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In general, I don't like the look, I'm curious if Apple will finally convince me. It's too much like Android and that's the last thing I want on an iPad...
I'm mainly waiting for a screenshot when someone turns on INVERT and shows the system in black!!!
Please, who has the beta and post INVERTED BLACK, thanks
I tried it and the UI looks nice (at least on a black device), but considering that the colors are inverted everywhere, it's quite a cancer. Anyway, the possibility to switch to black UI would be great
Well, I thought it would be an alternative, but if it's all colors like in the current IOS, then it's useless... I have a black iPhone and the white one is terrible!!!
We'll have to wait, it looks good. Perhaps a jailbreak, if not official anymore
unfortunately, the screenshot does not work in reverse, the screenshot will still be in the original colors.
I was an Apple fan just like you, I owned both an iPhone and an iPad, but then I switched to Android two years ago and since then I've been constantly coming back to see what's new. And I really enjoy articles like this one, when everyone solves problems like icon colors and the like, because otherwise there would probably be nothing to write about. Seriously guys, pull yourself together! But I will have the most fun when the final version comes out and the design is still the same, everyone will turn 180° and praise it to the heavens :D
I really only go to these sites to laugh and that's because I used to be the same...I have your problems :D
My journey was quite the opposite. Disillusioned with Android last year, I switched to iPhone and iPad and I am completely satisfied and I am definitely not going back. I am completely fed up with Android's instability and "weird" behavior. :D
I use both, even though iOS is later, and I have to say that solving problems in the form of icons is much more fun than solving which version of Android will work better for me, because here it doesn't work and there it doesn't. Waiting for support, which doesn't come until tinkering with the fans, where it squeaks in different ways until you realize that it's just a toy that you can't seriously do anything with, so it's used as a stupid device. Then it works really well.
My journey was exactly the opposite. Three years on Android and now a year on iOS and there's a real noticeable change. I was constantly playing with Android, debugging, etc. Unfortunately, something still didn't work, or at least not the way I wanted it to. Everything works on iOS and I don't have to worry about anything. It suits me so well.
And it is still true that no one demolished (planned) or rebuilt Rome and it still attracts people from all over the world generation after generation.
That's the progress, you don't install a jet engine in the ladder :0(