Well there is a bad (Even very very bad news in this change) and so far no one has noticed...
Apps that gets in the top FREE charts will be harder to discover. Why? because until now Free apps were appearing by default in top charts
Now the default sub tab is top paid. Meaning that users will have to get there in 2 clicks
This is also maybe a way to minimize the apps that are trying to game the top charts. But at the same time it is a bad news for users who clearly prefer to download free apps first before paid apps...
[quote name="Ouriel Ohayon" url="/t/158055/inside-ios-7-apples-new-app-store-simplifies-app-updating-discovery#post_2346832"] Apps that gets in the top FREE charts will be harder to discover. Why? because until now Free apps were appearing by default in top charts. Now the default sub tab is top paid. Meaning that users will have to get there in 2 clicks[/QUOTE]
Whoop de frick. That's "hard to discover"? No, having no categories is hard to discover.
A little more of iOS 7 is starting to grow on me. Still doesn't feel quite right in certain areas, but I'll admit that some of the visual elements in iOS 6 were indeed cruft that needed to go.
What's helping this little epiphany along? Interestingly enough, it's OS X Mavericks. There, too, Apple removed a lot of visual cruft. And I have to say, that the experience is even better now. It just feels so much more content-focused and slick. So it's prompted me to carry that optimism over to iOS 7.
Still, the thin, poorly-contrasted fonts on light-coloured backgrounds need some re-tooling, as well as the icons. But I can see where Apple is going with it and I approve of the direction. It's a matter of fine-tuning, though.
I'll note that it would have helped a great deal if Apple would have demo'd a tighter beta, in order to, in turn, control the message. This is something that Apple was known for. Instead, we're thrown a disclaimer that it's a work in progress or such-like. Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but while that attitude might be fine for Apple TV, it isn't really fit for a flagship, front-line product.
At any rate, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, as distant as it still appears. I'm also less perturbed by the comparisons with Windows Phone and Android. If Apple *can* indeed fix these weak and broken OSes in the form of iOS 7, then more power to them. The industry's been riding Apple's coattails for long enough; it might be time to pull another (justified) Xerox.
The 100% saturation colors are really just too much combined with the thin fonts. The emphasis for showing which information is important just seems all wrong.
Personally, that highly saturated blue they're using reminds me too much of WindowsXP.
It's so feminine-looking to me. Soft, pastel and glowy. Can't they offer something a little more masculine in terms of color and detail? Just a first impression...
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Well there is a bad (Even very very bad news in this change) and so far no one has noticed...
Apps that gets in the top FREE charts will be harder to discover. Why? because until now Free apps were appearing by default in top charts
Now the default sub tab is top paid. Meaning that users will have to get there in 2 clicks
This is also maybe a way to minimize the apps that are trying to game the top charts. But at the same time it is a bad news for users who clearly prefer to download free apps first before paid apps...
Apps that gets in the top FREE charts will be harder to discover. Why? because until now Free apps were appearing by default in top charts. Now the default sub tab is top paid. Meaning that users will have to get there in 2 clicks[/QUOTE]
Whoop de frick. That's "hard to discover"? No, having no categories is hard to discover.
What's helping this little epiphany along? Interestingly enough, it's OS X Mavericks. There, too, Apple removed a lot of visual cruft. And I have to say, that the experience is even better now. It just feels so much more content-focused and slick. So it's prompted me to carry that optimism over to iOS 7.
Still, the thin, poorly-contrasted fonts on light-coloured backgrounds need some re-tooling, as well as the icons. But I can see where Apple is going with it and I approve of the direction. It's a matter of fine-tuning, though.
I'll note that it would have helped a great deal if Apple would have demo'd a tighter beta, in order to, in turn, control the message. This is something that Apple was known for. Instead, we're thrown a disclaimer that it's a work in progress or such-like. Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but while that attitude might be fine for Apple TV, it isn't really fit for a flagship, front-line product.
At any rate, I can see a light at the end of the tunnel, as distant as it still appears. I'm also less perturbed by the comparisons with Windows Phone and Android. If Apple *can* indeed fix these weak and broken OSes in the form of iOS 7, then more power to them. The industry's been riding Apple's coattails for long enough; it might be time to pull another (justified) Xerox.
Personally, that highly saturated blue they're using reminds me too much of WindowsXP.