Re: Beta 1 thoughts
I was going to do a post about my thoughts after running beta one so far. So I guess I'll just put it here instead
. I'm not going to bother going through what doesn't work, crashes, etc. that is all part of a beta and is to be pretty much expected. Instead I'm going to more go through my opinion on the new look and functionality of iOS 7 as an iOS user. I'm sure some will disagree and that's cool it's my opinion after all I'm not saying this is how it is I'm just saying this is how it is for me.
Now to me an update to an OS should make things easier to do and more beneficial for the user. In that regard this update is really good, there are some features that make things easier to do like control center which has toggles, notification center from the lock screen, organization in the photos app, etc. The transparency that has been applied is also great, the music app on the lock screen doesn't completely cover the lock screen image completely. However some things in iOS 7 I personally think it has gone a bit backward. The look of the icons is the first thing I noticed, they seem so juvenile now it's like something my little brother made in photoshop. A lot of people thought that eventually Apple would have to make changes to iOS and I agree that this is definitely a change but the OS is supposed to be upgraded. I have no problem with the flatness but I find the actual look of the icons, the images on the icons, in some of the native icons were much better before. This is a personal thing since I have friends who agree with me and others who like the current look. I just think that the icons added a bit of polish and elegance before that they didn't have to remove to go flat. Why couldn't they keep the same icons but just make them flat? The fact that notifications on the lockscreen make the image below distorted with the transparent effect but there is no way to dismiss the notifications so they just stay there ruining the lock screen image and building up is another thing that irks me. The folders now, while they have pages and can hold more apps, each page only has 9 apps. So the more apps there are the more scrolling it will require to find them. The folder should use the full screen so it would be like home screens in a folder but it would cut down on the scrolling while allowing more space for apps.
I mention these things becasue while other things like bugs, battery drain, keyboard shortcuts not working, etc. will be fixed. I don't think there will be any changes to the look of the icons, etc so I guess we'll see how other customers react to them when it's released.