All Things Mac/ Apple
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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.
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Oddly enough, the fingerprint was the main thing giving me reservations for more reasons than privacy… I just hope it does not have issues with going out; however I do like that if it works they may have solved the "home" button issue that has been the demise of all my other iPhones
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I am somewhat confident that the scanner is secure; biometric data is stored on the SoC and it does not emit the data for verification…
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MCL, I think your analysis of the Music app not so much as nitpicking, but looking at the devil in the detail. It's the canary in the coalmine if anything.
The build hardware of the 5s is flawless, Touch ID works 99 times out of 100 on my first attempt. Parallax works and makes icons float. The stock iOS7 icons in hyper colour tho, I just don't get. Ive must have been smoking some good shit when those decisions were made. My gut feel on iOS7 is that it's been rushed to the market. Not due to bugs, but corners were cut to ensure no bugs. I think 7.1 in a few months time will fix a lot of these regressions.
I subscribe to the philosophy that Cook had been running the show for a long time. There's quite a new senior team that's come into power/merged roles in the last year, I think they'll iron out the small kinks over coming releases.
As long as the hardware remains kick ass, the OS is responsive and stable, I'll keep with it.
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Agreed on Cook operationally, but it remains to be seen if the Tastemaker-in-chief and his protege, the man who created iOS in the first place Mr. Forstall, were essential to Apple's continued success.
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I hated Forstall until iOS 7 came out…
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lol, yeah. I have faith (let's see) that it'll all calm down a little over 7.1. The phone, the features, and the integration are fantastic on a whole. As you've said, it's crazy nitpicking, but could be the start of something larger.
TouchID is worth it alone. I need to play with Slo-Mo video today, but it's very cool too. Features.
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Agreed brotha. The hardware is intelligent, and shows that they are still strategic.
Even "forward thinking" is a hint. The thumb print sender is the cherry on top of a technology stack designed to finally conquer mobile payments. Only apple has both the clout and the vertical integration to solve this problem. Wallet continues to fail, as does NFC, at least here.
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So you got a 5s snowy? I looked at one today and it seemed a hair taller than my 5 but barely noticeable so I'm wondering if it was in my head.
I'm pretty much on a 4, 5, 6 etc. upgrade schedule. More fun to me that way
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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.
It won't
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So you got a 5s snowy?
I'm pretty much on a 4, 5, 6 etc. upgrade schedule. More fun to me that wayI do. I do the 's' releases for the same reasons
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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.Wow, this just went from bad to even worse. Now, rotation in the Music app brings a tiled alphabetical listing of all your album covers. That's just fucking retarded. Even if I navigated to my playlist by artist this arbitrary view presents. I will NEVER use this view to get to an album, it is completely impractical. And when I go to the list view of a playlist, rotation does nothing at all, not even using the aforementioned playlist view that they used to have where the tiled album art listing now presents.
If they insist on a gimmicky tiled view like this, the sensible way to do it is to list the artists alphabetically vertically and then have the tiles of their albums/album art span horizontal space going out to the right under each corresponding artists. But it's still just weird to totally change what's going on just because you rotated the device.
Bad stuff… I will be using Listen to play music now. I didn't think it was possible to fuck Music up that bad...
Beyond how bad that is, why would they just push out such a drastic change like that? It just changed right under me. That's so un-Apple. Even doing that between a major release is unlike them, much less a transparent, sudden update changing core functionality of an app... it's just so strange on so many levels...
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Anyone have a 5 and after 7 upgrade cant use iMessage? So annoying. It asks u to log into iTunes to activate it but it wont activate at all. Says there is an issue with my network??? Tried with wifi and my network. Anyone
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Anyone have a 5 and after 7 upgrade cant use iMessage? So annoying. It asks u to log into iTunes to activate it but it wont activate at all. Says there is an issue with my network??? Tried with wifi and my network. Anyone
Yep - this is the same bug I had. Restore to factory settings is the fix.
