All Things Mac/ Apple
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It's interesting that the modal dialogs will look new in old apps, but not the keyboard. I had assumed that was a system element that would automatically be the iOS 7 keyboard, guess not. I think that would help make legacy apps feel newer, but I'm sure there a good reason for it.
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Hmm, I guess I should upgrade from iOS5 on my 4…
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No question
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Definitely upgrade. For the most part iOS7 is exactly what I've been looking for. The multi tasker, pull down spotlight, cleaner lock screen, and most of all the control center are great IMO. That was all functionality I had jailbroken my phone to get, but 7 convinced me to go back to a stock OS, and I'm happy with the decision.
My only real gripes are with the animations and the notification center. The animations could be a bit quicker/snappier. On my 4S, the make the OS feel a bit sluggish at times. I also wish the notification center would let you collapse notifications of the same app, but that's just being nit picky…
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Hmm, I guess I should upgrade from iOS5 on my 4…
2.9gb is a bit steep for me on a 16gb phone… I'll be sticking with os6 for now.
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Looks like I'm one of the lucky few who got the 'Push Notifications' bug - continual pop up in some apps (e.g., Newsstand) telling user to connect to iTunes to receive push notifications.
If you get it, looks like Restore from Backup is the fix.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/23012273?tstart=0#23012273?tstart=0
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Yesterday I fucking hated it, today I'm liking it.
Obstacles are stepping-stones
That guide us to our goals. Fences are filters That purify our souls. -
It grows, but some of the animations are just weird to me and I will never like the iconography and palette. But those aren't that big a deal.
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iOS 7 is growing on me. Tapatalk is now an abomination.
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Anyone else not seeing weather in notification center? Two of is stateside have this issue and no way to fix it.
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I'm seeing weather on my iPad (official ios7 release), but not my iPhone (pre-release hack of final version).
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I was seeing the weather last night right after I upgraded. It's not there this morning.
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It looks from screen shots like the weather is textual instead of graphical. That's a bad idea IMO. At this point I would take it though.
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I'm still just getting the date and the stock ticker (I turned the calendar view off). No weather info.
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I don't mind textual weather, but for Canada I've always found the Weather Network app better than the Yahoo feed that Apple uses.
Had to restore my iPad to factory to fix the Push Notifications issue. Irritating, because my home computer is so f'd that I had to bring it to work to do it there.
White plastic Macbooks do not last forever.
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Picked up a 5s in my lunch break today. Line was deceptively longer than it looked. Snaked around the block then 3 different queues inside the Apple Store. Got heckled at a few times by people touting Nokia and Samsungs (lol).
Coming from a 4s it's a beautiful step up. The Touch ID works awesomely working 1st time nearly every time, and the habit is already ingrained after a few hours.
I don't really use Notification Center, but am enjoying Control Center a lot (another reason for the purchase).
All apps transferred across flawlessly, as expected, but always nice.
I'll try get some photos out from/of it tomorrow.
1st impressions tho is a great upgrade. So much clearer/cleaner.
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Oh and related, both WHITE AND GOLD were sold out today!
Double Related, quite a few people were trying to buy more than 2-3 photos and the security guards/staff were kicking them out as having already bought their share for the day. The 'customers' in some cases kept arguing that their friends needed them so they should get more than 2. AMAZING.
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I'm kind of worried about Apple. I thought Jobs and still the culture that would carry them through, but there are some seriously big problems with iOS 7 in my opinion.
I've been patiently waiting for them to get their ass in gear on services, and now that services and user interface are in decline I'm very worried
One thing in there that's a microcosm I think is some changes that they made the music app.
First they got rid of the little airplay icon; they force you to go into control center to use that functionality. This is a pointless regression, and it goes against culturally what Apple would've done in the past. Worse than this, is when you're navigating through your music and you reorient your phone from portrait to landscape the system assumes that you want to look at the last played albums playlist instead of changing the view (cover flow in iOS 6 for example). This to my recollection is the first time in the history of an apple iOS app that it has not changed the way that it renders based on orientation but changed in fact what you're doing based on orientation. The natural affordance for rotating a device is to change your view, unless you're in a game and it becomes steering or something. The reason Apple iOS is so intuitive that a toddler or a tribal child who has never seen a computer can figure it out in seconds is that they have historically adhered app behavior to natural affordances.This does not bode well for Apple. I know this sounds trivial, but I've use these as philosophical rifts. Jony Ive needs to reread the Design of Everyday Things.
Just because Apple has a market share and prestige similar to BMW doesn't mean that they need to mimic the awful ergonomics.
I know this sounds nitpicky, but picking nits is how the late Micromanager-in-Chief made Apple what it is… Or perhaps was.
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Ordered a 5s today from apple, figured it is time to upgrade the 4… Had it long enough, hope it doesn't disappoint.
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The hardware is incredible, the fingerprint reader alone makes it compelling.
