I post this as someone who a) likes iOS 7 (for the most part), b) understands that people are more likely to complain than praise things, c) knows that people complain about change and new things, and d) knows that sentiment analysis is far far far from perfect. Having said that, check out this nifty sentiment analysis tool that shows that (at the moment) the sentiment for iOS 7 (18 on a 100-point scale where 0 is bad and 100 is good) is lower than that of Congress (42) and barely above "death" (14).
Here's a tip for those who don't like iOS 7 and/or are waiting to upgrade. Suck it up. Deal with it. You're gonna upgrade. You're not going to have a choice.
The problem with Apple is what I call the peacock syndrome: healthy, shiny feathers signify a healthy male with good genes, and as a result evolutionary pressure was on for such features; with peacocks they spiraled out of control: the feathers are so long and so pretty and shiny that they attract predators and turn the male into a clumsy, "useless" bird.
When it comes to Apple, the keyword isn't "shiny & pretty" but "simple": reducing complexity is a good thing *IF AND ONLY IF* functionality and the data model don't suffer.
Occam's razor stipulates to simplify things, but not beyond the point where the stop describing reality.
I'm all for simplification, but I'm absolutely against oversimplification. I rather deal with a certain amount of needless complexity than dealing with a system that can't handle reality because it's designed to demo well and only is able to handle the reality of 90% of the people 90% of the time.
Apple's problem is that they don't realize that their problem isn't anymore being too complicated but that it is being oversimplified.
Mail.app and iTunes.app are good examples; just getting rid of cover flow view for visually oriented people like me is a disaster; exploring my music library has become a total chore compared to what it used to be.
Nobody was forced to use cover flow; so why take it away from the people who love it?
Plenty of other examples, but Apple refuses to listen, (over)simplification has turned into a corporate religion at Apple.
They got rid of coverflow? I hadn't noticed because I never used it. I thought it was generally considered unnecessary eye candy that demoed well was wasn't very user-friendly. So I find it interesting that you suggest they got rid of it to demo better. I am also surprised they got rid of it; it was a signature look across Apple devices. Perhaps that one on of those "now that Steve's gone we can get rid of THAT" things. Interesting.
Objective reality aside, iOS7 is taking a beating in the twittersphere.
What doesn't take a beating on Twiter? From what I've seen the comments about iOS 7 were considerably nicer than I expected for such a dramatic YoY change to iOS. Frankly, it was one that was long overdue and anyone that thinks iOS 6 looks, feels and performs better than iOS 7 is a Luddite and afraid of their own shadow.
It was adopted much faster. This "report" is from a single ad tracking firm. Apple itself has mentioned that over 200 million iOS devices were updated to iOS 7 in the first three days. Which is far, far more than iOS 6 saw.
iOS 7 reached 60% adoption rate after a week.
iOS 6 took a month to hit that percentage.
Furthermore, there are approximately 200 million more iOS devices in the wild than there were a year ago, which makes iOS 7 adoption rate even faster.
200 million activations? What kind of crack are you smoking?
For there to be 200 million iOS 7 activations, every single iPhone sold in the last year and a half would have to be updated. EVERY SINGLE ONE. If you include iPads, you would still have to go back to every single device sold in the last year.
Hate to break it to you, but that ain't happening.
200 million activations? What kind of crack are you smoking?
For there to be 200 million iOS 7 activations, every single iPhone sold in the last year and a half would have to be updated. EVERY SINGLE ONE. If you include iPads, you would still have to go back to every single device sold in the last year.
Hate to break it to you, but that ain't happening.
You think Apple only sold 200MM iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches in the last 18 months? What data do you have to back up that claim?
I have switched to IOS7 and I, along with many of my clients, do not like the look and feel. It is a step backward, looks like a candy store and it took away the polish of the previous IOS. Perhaps they will step back to an interface that looks better than IOS7. I would have to guess Mr. Jobs would be displeased with IOS7. It looks like something M$ or Droid would produce.
Another "Jobs would never" post. Jobs release OS X 10.0, remember that backlash?
200 million activations? What kind of crack are you smoking?
For there to be 200 million iOS 7 activations, every single iPhone sold in the last year and a half would have to be updated. EVERY SINGLE ONE. If you include iPads, you would still have to go back to every single device sold in the last year.
Hate to break it to you, but that ain't happening.
iOS can be installed in an iPhone 4. That phone is 3 years old, so yeah half the idevices sold in the last three years were upgraded to iOS 7.
The problem with iOS 7 is some people are highly resistant to change and others are not. Flat icons. Different color menus. Whoopty doo. It's still the same OS. It's just has better features.
And it's adjustable. People complaining about what comes default can often just change things in settings. I, for instance, went for a very different set of display images to tone down the "colorful" home screen. Now it doesn't look all that different to my iPhone 5 under iOS 6 and with a darker background the app displays are easily seen.
The performance increase with iOS 7 I immediately noticed on my 5 in email and SAFARI were impressive as well and with those automatic app updates in background the developers seem to have caught whatever early conflicts there may have been and I've not experienced anything since Washington Post updated (the one bad actor I did notice).
....Mail.app and iTunes.app are good examples; just getting rid of cover flow view for visually oriented people like me is a disaster; exploring my music library has become a total chore compared to what it used to be.
Nobody was forced to use cover flow; so why take it away from the people who love it?
Plenty of other examples, but Apple refuses to listen, (over)simplification has turned into a corporate religion at Apple.
The tile views on both iTunes and the iPhone in landscape orientation are somewhat analogous to coverflow. Not as large an image but that has the advantage, it seems to me, of showing more of the album covers at a time which is easier for me anyway, to scan visually. The sorting options are also nice.
I've noticed the majority of people who complain about iOS 7 are those that haven't USED it or can't use it because their devices are too old. Everyone I've talked to who has upgraded, loves iOS 7. Yes, the colors are a bit garish, but a lot of the new features that make it easier to use far out weigh the color scheme.
Control Center, the new notifications, swiping from left to right to go back a screen, the new Safari, the app switcher (multi-tasker), etc.
I would NEVER go back to iOS 6 and using iOS 5 on my iPad is awful now. Well not awful, but makes it feel so dated.
Im with you, I love iOS 7 and would not go back to 6. I ran every beta right up to golden master on 2 iPhone 5's, an iPad 3, an iPhone 4s, and an iPhone 4. Appart from the iPhone 4 being a little bit slow (3year old iPhone) They all ran well. I like the interface, and the icons. Once put my own background in it, it looks totally different. iOS7 was designed to take on the colors of whatever wallpaper you install. Also I love the new features as well that you mentioned above.
iOS7 was designed to take on the colors of whatever wallpaper you install. Also I love the new features as well that you mentioned above.
On my new 5s it screams too!
That's thing then! I went with a darker wallpaper and couldn't guess why people were doing this "it's too white" thing. I've swapped some but at the moment it's the space star image with a bit of nebula at the bottom. Pretty much the first thing I changed was that wallpaper so I never really saw whatever the default was.
Oh and yeah, my 5 got fast but the 5s really moves right along. Email deleting was never this fast!
....Mail.app and iTunes.app are good examples; just getting rid of cover flow view for visually oriented people like me is a disaster; exploring my music library has become a total chore compared to what it used to be.
Nobody was forced to use cover flow; so why take it away from the people who love it?
Plenty of other examples, but Apple refuses to listen, (over)simplification has turned into a corporate religion at Apple.
The tile views on both iTunes and the iPhone in landscape orientation are somewhat analogous to coverflow. Not as large an image but that has the advantage, it seems to me, of showing more of the album covers at a time which is easier for me anyway, to scan visually. The sorting options are also nice.
So, if I understand you correctly, if you own a magazine, instead of thumbing through it, you cut it at the spine and lay out all the pages on a big floor and walk around to see what page you want to read?
It's MUCH faster to keep your eyes pinned to a spot, and move a scroller to have the various images fly by, than having to scan rows and columns of pictures, and then scroll when you reached the end of what can be shown on one screen, and then try to reorient your vision and then rinse, repeat...
With cover flow in one swift move I can scroll through hundreds if not thousands of CDs; cover flow works for individual play lists, etc. It's quick, easy, consistent.
The tile view is a stupid thing borrowed from a resource constrained iOS, in a vain effort to make OS X look like iOS regardless of the fact that they have different operating modes and hardware constraints.
If you actually want to enjoy or enlarge cover art, because that's how you navigate your music, then that has no effect on the efficiency of your search in cover flow, but the more you enlarge the album art, the less efficient the tile layout gets, because you may end up fitting 6 or 8 tiles on a screen, and you have to do scrolling that is very hard to follow and adjust for the eyes.
Apple was sued about CoverFlow, and they won, but the whole thing looks like corporate told them to do away with CoverFlow in case they lose that law suit, and once they won, nobody told the developers to ditch the alternative view project.
So, if I understand you correctly, if you own a magazine, instead of thumbing through it, you cut it at the spine and lay out all the pages on a big floor and walk around to see what page you want to read?
The automatic updates is causing many to hit their data limits. Hope Apple will fix to add an option to only update when connected to wi-fi.
Can autoupdate be turned off altogether?* Were I data limited that's what I'd do.
I do know background app refresh can be turned off: that stops apps from updating their information in the background, which eats data otherwise. I noticed the increase on mine early on.
* ETA: Yes, it can: Settings... iTunes and App Store...Automatic downloads..
that's also where you can turn OFF the use of cellular data for the downloads. (scroll to the bottom of the page).
So, if I understand you correctly, if you own a magazine, instead of thumbing through it, you cut it at the spine and lay out all the pages on a big floor and walk around to see what page you want to read?
.....
What's a magazine?
Straight from Apple's Dictionary app:
Quote:
"magazine |?mag??z?n, ?mag??z?n|noun1 a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, typically covering a particular subject or area of interest: a car magazine | a women's magazine.• a regular television or radio program comprising a variety of topical news or entertainment items.
[...]
"
Give it a few more years, and people will ask "What's a book?"
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I post this as someone who a) likes iOS 7 (for the most part), b) understands that people are more likely to complain than praise things, c) knows that people complain about change and new things, and d) knows that sentiment analysis is far far far from perfect. Having said that, check out this nifty sentiment analysis tool that shows that (at the moment) the sentiment for iOS 7 (18 on a 100-point scale where 0 is bad and 100 is good) is lower than that of Congress (42) and barely above "death" (14).
http://topsy.com/s?q=ios7&type=tweet
IOS 6 earns a 42
iPhone: 61
Mac: 67
Apple: 67
iPad: 81
Windows: 63
Samsung: 63
Android: 75
Objective reality aside, iOS7 is taking a beating in the twittersphere.
Here's a tip for those who don't like iOS 7 and/or are waiting to upgrade. Suck it up. Deal with it. You're gonna upgrade. You're not going to have a choice.
The rest is just noise.
The problem with Apple is what I call the peacock syndrome: healthy, shiny feathers signify a healthy male with good genes, and as a result evolutionary pressure was on for such features; with peacocks they spiraled out of control: the feathers are so long and so pretty and shiny that they attract predators and turn the male into a clumsy, "useless" bird.
When it comes to Apple, the keyword isn't "shiny & pretty" but "simple": reducing complexity is a good thing *IF AND ONLY IF* functionality and the data model don't suffer.
Occam's razor stipulates to simplify things, but not beyond the point where the stop describing reality.
I'm all for simplification, but I'm absolutely against oversimplification. I rather deal with a certain amount of needless complexity than dealing with a system that can't handle reality because it's designed to demo well and only is able to handle the reality of 90% of the people 90% of the time.
Apple's problem is that they don't realize that their problem isn't anymore being too complicated but that it is being oversimplified.
Mail.app and iTunes.app are good examples; just getting rid of cover flow view for visually oriented people like me is a disaster; exploring my music library has become a total chore compared to what it used to be.
Nobody was forced to use cover flow; so why take it away from the people who love it?
Plenty of other examples, but Apple refuses to listen, (over)simplification has turned into a corporate religion at Apple.
They got rid of coverflow? I hadn't noticed because I never used it. I thought it was generally considered unnecessary eye candy that demoed well was wasn't very user-friendly. So I find it interesting that you suggest they got rid of it to demo better. I am also surprised they got rid of it; it was a signature look across Apple devices. Perhaps that one on of those "now that Steve's gone we can get rid of THAT" things. Interesting.
No it isn't. And my opinion is worth more than yours anyway so shut up.
What doesn't take a beating on Twiter? From what I've seen the comments about iOS 7 were considerably nicer than I expected for such a dramatic YoY change to iOS. Frankly, it was one that was long overdue and anyone that thinks iOS 6 looks, feels and performs better than iOS 7 is a Luddite and afraid of their own shadow.
It was adopted much faster. This "report" is from a single ad tracking firm. Apple itself has mentioned that over 200 million iOS devices were updated to iOS 7 in the first three days. Which is far, far more than iOS 6 saw.
iOS 7 reached 60% adoption rate after a week.
iOS 6 took a month to hit that percentage.
Furthermore, there are approximately 200 million more iOS devices in the wild than there were a year ago, which makes iOS 7 adoption rate even faster.
200 million activations? What kind of crack are you smoking?
For there to be 200 million iOS 7 activations, every single iPhone sold in the last year and a half would have to be updated. EVERY SINGLE ONE. If you include iPads, you would still have to go back to every single device sold in the last year.
Hate to break it to you, but that ain't happening.
You think Apple only sold 200MM iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touches in the last 18 months? What data do you have to back up that claim?
Another "Jobs would never" post. Jobs release OS X 10.0, remember that backlash?
iOS can be installed in an iPhone 4. That phone is 3 years old, so yeah half the idevices sold in the last three years were upgraded to iOS 7.
The problem with iOS 7 is some people are highly resistant to change and others are not. Flat icons. Different color menus. Whoopty doo. It's still the same OS. It's just has better features.
And it's adjustable. People complaining about what comes default can often just change things in settings. I, for instance, went for a very different set of display images to tone down the "colorful" home screen. Now it doesn't look all that different to my iPhone 5 under iOS 6 and with a darker background the app displays are easily seen.
The performance increase with iOS 7 I immediately noticed on my 5 in email and SAFARI were impressive as well and with those automatic app updates in background the developers seem to have caught whatever early conflicts there may have been and I've not experienced anything since Washington Post updated (the one bad actor I did notice).
....Mail.app and iTunes.app are good examples; just getting rid of cover flow view for visually oriented people like me is a disaster; exploring my music library has become a total chore compared to what it used to be.
Nobody was forced to use cover flow; so why take it away from the people who love it?
Plenty of other examples, but Apple refuses to listen, (over)simplification has turned into a corporate religion at Apple.
The tile views on both iTunes and the iPhone in landscape orientation are somewhat analogous to coverflow. Not as large an image but that has the advantage, it seems to me, of showing more of the album covers at a time which is easier for me anyway, to scan visually. The sorting options are also nice.
I've noticed the majority of people who complain about iOS 7 are those that haven't USED it or can't use it because their devices are too old. Everyone I've talked to who has upgraded, loves iOS 7. Yes, the colors are a bit garish, but a lot of the new features that make it easier to use far out weigh the color scheme.
Control Center, the new notifications, swiping from left to right to go back a screen, the new Safari, the app switcher (multi-tasker), etc.
I would NEVER go back to iOS 6 and using iOS 5 on my iPad is awful now.
Well not awful, but makes it feel so dated.
Im with you, I love iOS 7 and would not go back to 6. I ran every beta right up to golden master on 2 iPhone 5's, an iPad 3, an iPhone 4s, and an iPhone 4. Appart from the iPhone 4 being a little bit slow (3year old iPhone) They all ran well. I like the interface, and the icons. Once put my own background in it, it looks totally different. iOS7 was designed to take on the colors of whatever wallpaper you install. Also I love the new features as well that you mentioned above.
On my new 5s it screams too!
The other question to ask is how many people downgraded back to IOS6 after seeing IOS7 and how many people tried to download IOS6 and could not?
You can.
Im with you,.....
iOS7 was designed to take on the colors of whatever wallpaper you install. Also I love the new features as well that you mentioned above.
On my new 5s it screams too!
That's thing then! I went with a darker wallpaper and couldn't guess why people were doing this "it's too white" thing. I've swapped some but at the moment it's the space star image with a bit of nebula at the bottom. Pretty much the first thing I changed was that wallpaper so I never really saw whatever the default was.
Oh and yeah, my 5 got fast but the 5s really moves right along. Email deleting was never this fast!
....Mail.app and iTunes.app are good examples; just getting rid of cover flow view for visually oriented people like me is a disaster; exploring my music library has become a total chore compared to what it used to be.
Nobody was forced to use cover flow; so why take it away from the people who love it?
Plenty of other examples, but Apple refuses to listen, (over)simplification has turned into a corporate religion at Apple.
The tile views on both iTunes and the iPhone in landscape orientation are somewhat analogous to coverflow. Not as large an image but that has the advantage, it seems to me, of showing more of the album covers at a time which is easier for me anyway, to scan visually. The sorting options are also nice.
So, if I understand you correctly, if you own a magazine, instead of thumbing through it, you cut it at the spine and lay out all the pages on a big floor and walk around to see what page you want to read?
It's MUCH faster to keep your eyes pinned to a spot, and move a scroller to have the various images fly by, than having to scan rows and columns of pictures, and then scroll when you reached the end of what can be shown on one screen, and then try to reorient your vision and then rinse, repeat...
With cover flow in one swift move I can scroll through hundreds if not thousands of CDs; cover flow works for individual play lists, etc. It's quick, easy, consistent.
The tile view is a stupid thing borrowed from a resource constrained iOS, in a vain effort to make OS X look like iOS regardless of the fact that they have different operating modes and hardware constraints.
If you actually want to enjoy or enlarge cover art, because that's how you navigate your music, then that has no effect on the efficiency of your search in cover flow, but the more you enlarge the album art, the less efficient the tile layout gets, because you may end up fitting 6 or 8 tiles on a screen, and you have to do scrolling that is very hard to follow and adjust for the eyes.
Apple was sued about CoverFlow, and they won, but the whole thing looks like corporate told them to do away with CoverFlow in case they lose that law suit, and once they won, nobody told the developers to ditch the alternative view project.
So, if I understand you correctly, if you own a magazine, instead of thumbing through it, you cut it at the spine and lay out all the pages on a big floor and walk around to see what page you want to read?
.....
What's a magazine?
The automatic updates is causing many to hit their data limits. Hope Apple will fix to add an option to only update when connected to wi-fi.
The automatic updates is causing many to hit their data limits. Hope Apple will fix to add an option to only update when connected to wi-fi.
Can autoupdate be turned off altogether?* Were I data limited that's what I'd do.
I do know background app refresh can be turned off: that stops apps from updating their information in the background, which eats data otherwise. I noticed the increase on mine early on.
* ETA: Yes, it can: Settings... iTunes and App Store...Automatic downloads..
that's also where you can turn OFF the use of cellular data for the downloads. (scroll to the bottom of the page).
So, if I understand you correctly, if you own a magazine, instead of thumbing through it, you cut it at the spine and lay out all the pages on a big floor and walk around to see what page you want to read?
.....
What's a magazine?
Straight from Apple's Dictionary app:
"magazine |?mag??z?n, ?mag??z?n|noun1 a periodical publication containing articles and illustrations, typically covering a particular subject or area of interest: a car magazine | a women's magazine.• a regular television or radio program comprising a variety of topical news or entertainment items.
Give it a few more years, and people will ask "What's a book?"
"Heroin" (diamorphine) is an excellent pain killer often used by physicians (in some countries) for rapidly easing some kinds of acute pain.
none the less, the original poster comparing iOS 7 to Heroin is ridiculous.
Quote:
HEROIN has quantifiable negative physiological and psychological effects and no positive ones. It is also illegal.
Not to be all nitpicky or anything, but heroin DEFINITELY has some positive effects. Just... they're rather short-term.