iOS 7

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What do you think of iOS 7 from what you've seen so far?



Apple's new mobile operating system ditches skeuomorphic design and adds new features such as Control Center, which allows users access to settings and useful apps from anywhere on their device.

Looks good to me, I always hated skeuomorphism so its great to see a cleaner interface. The new control centre looks useful too.

I have an older iPod that can't be updated thats running iOS 5.1.1 and I could honestly care less what it runs as long as it plays music. Its also jailbroken if that makes a difference but really I only use it for music.

My jail broken iOS 5 device was stolen, so I got my father's which is 6.1.3. which can't be jailbroken. The guys who do jailbreaks stated they will save the vulnerabilities they've found so far for iOS 7, so I want that one to come out just for that reason and then I will not update again. I liked the iOS 5 though, but it's too late for that.

I stopped using iOS devices a while ago, and though I thought they were great devices once jailbroken and extensively modified, I always thought the devices out of the box were incredibly disappointing, with numerous small but not insignificant design quirks. The version 7 update seems to do a lot of things right, such as the quick toggles and finally introducing multitasking, but there's still issues I had with the OS that remain unchanged, such as the inability to set third party applications as default programs, the App Store being the sole distribution platform for applications, the inability to install applications outside of the App Store, the inability to browse the filesystem, the lack of connectivity to other devices other than PCs with USB cables, the inability to transfer any data without using iTunes, the proprietary ports, and the use of proprietary standards such as AirPlay over preexisting standards such as DLNA, to name a few. The biggest change that people seem to mention about iOS 7 is the loss of the previously used skeuomorphic design, which never really bothered me.

It seems to me that the really big change Apple needs to implement to allow real innovation to occur is to allow third party development to occur outside of the App Store. Just about every change in iOS since its original incarnation had already been seen in jailbreak mods. Rather than one company trying to implement every good jailbreak mod to ever exist, surely it would be easier to leave it in the hands of the huge third party development scene.

Much ado about nothing.

Without Jobs, I doubt Apple will have much in the line of innovation anymore.

I've not heard one rave review about what Apple is offering compared to where Android-based devices are trying to go.

Not great, but not awful either. I like the clean look a little bit, but then again the iOS is known for its skeuomorphism. Not too much new functionality either.
I don't even recognise this as Apple anymore. I'm sure they're getting some 'inspiration' off Android. Hmm. A lot more than just 'inspiration', eh?

From what I've seen, mostly its just a lot of eye candy. There's not must functional difference between Windows XP and Windows Vista, but the UI looks different and that makes a lot of people "oooh" and "aaaah". I don't mind Apple refresh the look and feel of it, it is a bit old at this point and in need of an update - I'm not sure that what I've seen of the screenshots is the look I'd go for if it were my decision, but it is what it is.

Still, I'd rather they worked on a lot of annoying little missing things that could easily be done. Let Siri interface better with 3rd party apps, let me change the sound that plays when I receive a text, and some other stuff along those lines.

This screen style was already done by android/ windows phone... Its nothing special... But apple will market the hell out of it and everyone will think they invented the rectangle screen... like usual... (Because this planet is full of stooges...) *cough*

Looks interesting nice but personally, there really is not that much difference in functionality wise.
The question is, would it be worth updating to iOS 7?