Any of you peeps watch the Apple WWDC keynote this morning (local time, that is)? New iOS...looks pretty spiffy, I have to say!
Skeumorphism - woosh. Gone. Lots of jokes made about that over the course of the entire conference. No more virtual calves harmed to make those calendars, etc. Steve would have suffered an aneurysm if he'd still been alive, fired the lot of the designer team and stomped the speech writer to death himself no doubt.
White is a consistent theme - gonna be hell on battery life if Apple ever switches to OLED screens, that's for sure.
Parallaxing background/foreground layers and blur/transparency effects is also big new design features. Wonder how well that will run on iPhone4 with its fairly sluggish GPU... No wonder 3GS won't be supported anymore, it couldn't get that clean, slick look without the retina display.
Thin, new typeface is also new. I'm a little wary, it's gonna be hard to read in bright sunlight or people with crappy eyes like I'm getting (or so it feels anyway.)
This was just a preview, but even so it feels like big features took a bit of a step back because of the huge redesign. Most changes seem centered on making existing aspects of iOS slicker and better, like the new app switcher for example that actually gives you a view of the new app.
There IS new stuff too, like the new control center, which is something which many people have wanted to have for many years now I think. Instead of tapping and swiping 50 times to turn wifi or bluetooth on or off, adjusting screen brightness, turning on airplane mode, starting the calculator or stopwatch or even simply spreading some light over the vicinity with the LED flash - this can all be done from one single place, which is even available on the lock screen. Fecking wow, eh! Apple, you really revolutionarize everything!
Well, actually, it does look a bit cool. Calendar's looking much better, weather app, much much improved. And not just because of the animated and parallaxing background, you get a lot more info now than before. Hopefully it will be more precise too with regards to your actual location - with current weather app it's actually rather coarse, giving the weather over a wider region, at least around where I live.
Skeumorphism - woosh. Gone. Lots of jokes made about that over the course of the entire conference. No more virtual calves harmed to make those calendars, etc. Steve would have suffered an aneurysm if he'd still been alive, fired the lot of the designer team and stomped the speech writer to death himself no doubt.
White is a consistent theme - gonna be hell on battery life if Apple ever switches to OLED screens, that's for sure.
Parallaxing background/foreground layers and blur/transparency effects is also big new design features. Wonder how well that will run on iPhone4 with its fairly sluggish GPU... No wonder 3GS won't be supported anymore, it couldn't get that clean, slick look without the retina display.Thin, new typeface is also new. I'm a little wary, it's gonna be hard to read in bright sunlight or people with crappy eyes like I'm getting (or so it feels anyway.)
This was just a preview, but even so it feels like big features took a bit of a step back because of the huge redesign. Most changes seem centered on making existing aspects of iOS slicker and better, like the new app switcher for example that actually gives you a view of the new app.
There IS new stuff too, like the new control center, which is something which many people have wanted to have for many years now I think. Instead of tapping and swiping 50 times to turn wifi or bluetooth on or off, adjusting screen brightness, turning on airplane mode, starting the calculator or stopwatch or even simply spreading some light over the vicinity with the LED flash - this can all be done from one single place, which is even available on the lock screen. Fecking wow, eh! Apple, you really revolutionarize everything!
Well, actually, it does look a bit cool. Calendar's looking much better, weather app, much much improved. And not just because of the animated and parallaxing background, you get a lot more info now than before. Hopefully it will be more precise too with regards to your actual location - with current weather app it's actually rather coarse, giving the weather over a wider region, at least around where I live.
