Looks as though Tim is doing a good job of maintaining secrecy on this one. All there is is idle speculation and a fuzzy picture or two of some alpha version of iOS 7.
We'll know after we see what's unveiled. But I think it's true: Apple is much better at maintaining secrecy on-campus. But the suppliers, they leak like sieves.
I was referring to the BB Storm and Z10... which don't have keyboards. And don't be silly. Nobody buys those ancient things anymore.
I also have reason to believe that they were upset even if they had updated to iOS 6... there were even memes.
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1) Nobody? What the hell is it with everybody using silly absolutely in this thread?
2) You do realize that's an icon for the Maps app, right, not a map for people to use, right? Where was the outcry when Google Maps was the engine and the icon showed I-280 going over De Anza Blvd?
There have been many changes to iTunes Connect portal over the last few months. I don't believe this change (square corners) is an indication of what to come. The round corners are an iOS signature. Just look at the Home button on iOS devices. Maybe they will tweak the current corners radius.
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Originally Posted by Rogifan
Btw the banners for WWDC show squares with rounded corners. Me thinks people are getting their panties in a twist over nothing.
I wish Apple allows developers to use icons with transparent background (like with Mac OS) and if you ask me these banners indicate they will.
None of us have seen what the final iOS 7 will look like. I think it's pretty unfair to throw around words like hideous and crap over something you haven't seen. And a grainy picture of a rumored very early version of iOS doesn't count.
Yeah, I'm probably just getting so nervous that I'm overstating things a bit.
What we've seen is pretty hideous and is "crap" IMO but it isn't likely to be the real deal anyway.
My main "hate-it" is the colour-coded/differentiated apps and the idea of a different colour for each though, and that looks very likely to happen in some form or other. It all depends on *what* colours and exactly what shades they pick but I find the whole concept kind of stupid as well as being unoriginal.
Strange that most of you seem to miss the point of this simply being a pre-cursor to change in the app icons. Of course there won't be square icons, Apple is making a point here that the iOS 1-6 default app filter is changing in iOS7. It just won't be applied to the developer portal icons until after the WWDC reveal.
So what? What if they decide to just copy copy copy?
Google never did anything else... Microsoft is based on copying, just like samsung.
Why is Apple forced to innovate? Why can't they just copy the others? They have the money and influence... They can undercut their prices and put all OEMs out of business. Why not?
So what? What if they decide to just copy copy copy?
Google never did anything else... Microsoft is based on copying, just like samsung.
Why is Apple forced to innovate? Why can't they just copy the others? They have the money and influence... They can undercut their prices and put all OEMs out of business. Why not?
No one is forcing Apple to innovate, it's that we've become used to them being innovators that we expect to do it all the time.
Quoting from the biography of the Creator himself:
“Hertzfeld recalled that when Atkinson fired up his demo, everyone was impressed except Jobs. “Well, circles and ovals are good,” he said, “but how about drawing rectangles with rounded corners?”
“I don’t think we really need it,” said Atkinson, who explained that it would be almost impossible to do. “I wanted to keep the graphics routines lean and limit them to the primitives that truly needed to be done,” he recalled.
“Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere!” Jobs said, jumping up and getting more intense. “Just look around this room!” He pointed out the whiteboard and the tabletop and other objects that were rectangular with rounded corners. “And look outside, there’s even more, practically everywhere you look!” He dragged Atkinson out for a walk, pointing out car windows and billboards and street signs. “Within three blocks, we found seventeen examples,” said Jobs. “I started pointing them out everywhere until he was completely convinced.”
“When he finally got to a No Parking sign, I said, ‘Okay, you’re right, I give up. We need to have a rounded-corner rectangle as a primitive!’” Hertzfeld recalled, “Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face. His demo was now drawing rectangles with beautifully rounded corners blisteringly fast.” The dialogue boxes and windows on the Lisa and the Mac, and almost every other subsequent computer, ended up being rendered with rounded corners.”
Wow look at all the fools believing Apple will scrap rounded corners.
Discussion on the second half of the article, the less odd suggestion that ios7 will look like the WWDC app would be very welcome.
So, what do we have here. No shine on buttons or highlighted icons. That's a hint. Less overt shadows. Depressed selection style from osx; there could there be increased cross-pollination of styles and elements. Perhaps iphone apps will join iPad apps in having their top corners rounded with only the option of a black status bar. We're definitely losing some individuality amongst apple apps, and whilst ske... skeueo... skew... looking like shit it ain't is clearly seen as A Bad Move, it will be sad if all frivolity and idiosyncrasy are completely expunged.
Square edges, rounded edges, I'm good either way. I would like to be able to custom color code outside edges of apps & files & be able to put in more apps per file & put more files on a page
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Originally Posted by currentinterest
Looks as though Tim is doing a good job of maintaining secrecy on this one. All there is is idle speculation and a fuzzy picture or two of some alpha version of iOS 7.
We'll know after we see what's unveiled. But I think it's true: Apple is much better at maintaining secrecy on-campus. But the suppliers, they leak like sieves.
1) Nobody? What the hell is it with everybody using silly absolutely in this thread?
2) You do realize that's an icon for the Maps app, right, not a map for people to use, right? Where was the outcry when Google Maps was the engine and the icon showed I-280 going over De Anza Blvd?
DED, duh.
There have been many changes to iTunes Connect portal over the last few months. I don't believe this change (square corners) is an indication of what to come. The round corners are an iOS signature. Just look at the Home button on iOS devices. Maybe they will tweak the current corners radius.
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Originally Posted by Rogifan
Btw the banners for WWDC show squares with rounded corners. Me thinks people are getting their panties in a twist over nothing.
I wish Apple allows developers to use icons with transparent background (like with Mac OS) and if you ask me these banners indicate they will.
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Originally Posted by Rogifan
None of us have seen what the final iOS 7 will look like. I think it's pretty unfair to throw around words like hideous and crap over something you haven't seen.
Yeah, I'm probably just getting so nervous that I'm overstating things a bit.
What we've seen is pretty hideous and is "crap" IMO but it isn't likely to be the real deal anyway.
My main "hate-it" is the colour-coded/differentiated apps and the idea of a different colour for each though, and that looks very likely to happen in some form or other. It all depends on *what* colours and exactly what shades they pick but I find the whole concept kind of stupid as well as being unoriginal.
Originally Posted by FXGPV
Is this taste? Copy Windows and Android??
Is this trolling? Shut up, fools.
Would be kinda fun to watch if Apple patents their 'square corners' innovation.
Then their competitors could still use corners, just as long as they weren't square or rounded.
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Originally Posted by FXGPV
Is this taste? Copy Windows and Android??
So what? What if they decide to just copy copy copy?
Google never did anything else... Microsoft is based on copying, just like samsung.
Why is Apple forced to innovate? Why can't they just copy the others? They have the money and influence... They can undercut their prices and put all OEMs out of business. Why not?
Look at the WWDC logo and especially the recently-revealed matching venue decor: round corners galore.
I think Metro looks really neat with all the squares, but in a very different way that I'm sure has no place in iOS today.
No one is forcing Apple to innovate, it's that we've become used to them being innovators that we expect to do it all the time.
Not happening.
Quoting from the biography of the Creator himself:
“Hertzfeld recalled that when Atkinson fired up his demo, everyone was impressed except Jobs. “Well, circles and ovals are good,” he said, “but how about drawing rectangles with rounded corners?”
“I don’t think we really need it,” said Atkinson, who explained that it would be almost impossible to do. “I wanted to keep the graphics routines lean and limit them to the primitives that truly needed to be done,” he recalled.
“Rectangles with rounded corners are everywhere!” Jobs said, jumping up and getting more intense. “Just look around this room!” He pointed out the whiteboard and the tabletop and other objects that were rectangular with rounded corners. “And look outside, there’s even more, practically everywhere you look!” He dragged Atkinson out for a walk, pointing out car windows and billboards and street signs. “Within three blocks, we found seventeen examples,” said Jobs. “I started pointing them out everywhere until he was completely convinced.”
“When he finally got to a No Parking sign, I said, ‘Okay, you’re right, I give up. We need to have a rounded-corner rectangle as a primitive!’” Hertzfeld recalled, “Bill returned to Texaco Towers the following afternoon, with a big smile on his face. His demo was now drawing rectangles with beautifully rounded corners blisteringly fast.” The dialogue boxes and windows on the Lisa and the Mac, and almost every other subsequent computer, ended up being rendered with rounded corners.”
Excerpt From: Isaacson, Walter. “Steve Jobs.” Simon & Schuster, 2011. iBooks.
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Check out this book on the iBookstore: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/steve-jobs/id431617578?mt=11
Relevant to the above.
Doesn't Microsoft own the patent for square icons?
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Yes..... It is Ugly......... Seriously hope this is not coming true......
Discussion on the second half of the article, the less odd suggestion that ios7 will look like the WWDC app would be very welcome.
So, what do we have here. No shine on buttons or highlighted icons. That's a hint. Less overt shadows. Depressed selection style from osx; there could there be increased cross-pollination of styles and elements. Perhaps iphone apps will join iPad apps in having their top corners rounded with only the option of a black status bar. We're definitely losing some individuality amongst apple apps, and whilst ske... skeueo... skew... looking like shit it ain't is clearly seen as A Bad Move, it will be sad if all frivolity and idiosyncrasy are completely expunged.