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iOS 7 - Who's waiting and who can't wait?
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Seeing as this is a mac forum I figure relatively few people, but over the years I've cared less about jumping on new releases, learned the value of waiting for kinks to get ironed out, and in this case, find the it kind of horrific to look at (Never mind usability issues that may pop-up or reduced performance on an older model).
What say you?
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I love iOS 7.
Initially, battery life took a pretty big hit, but disabling location services for weather helped, and I assume the app updates that have been sweeping in will optimize those for battery life when multitasking.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
I love iOS 7.
This was never in doubt.
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iOS 7 looks like it was designed by Spencer Gifts in the 70's.
Seriously, what do you get out of it? An obnoxious-looking OS, and not much else. Oh, you can use Flashlight from Command Center now.
I've been testing iOS 7 for work and I'm NOT impressed. Not upgrading.
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I will wait. I found the webmail update jarring enough.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
This was never in doubt.
Thanks.
Let me put it this way: this was the first time I installed an OS-anything before official launch date (well, since DP4 of OS X).
For every thing that was jarring initially, there are two things much improved.
Things I'm noticing every day, in a big way:
Audiobooks in music player show track titles rather than file names. This is huge for me.
I like the artist view with auto-generated images - nice in the car.
Siri is WAY improved.
Maps can now pronounce street names with umlauts.
Calendars are now freely scrolling in month view.
Tabs in Safari.
Pull from side to go back.
Individual sub-mailboxes shown at the top level in Mail.app, including sent, unread, and any IMAP folder. This is really big, too, as I'm constantly dealing with project folders.
Single-tap HDR switch in camera.
I like the new notification center a lot - upcoming calendar events, weather, etc. I've been wanting the calendar thing since it was introduced on Android.
APP AUTO-UPDATES!
The new Photos overview. Massive improvement.
And probably dozens more.
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I don't mind the look. Some of the icons look pretty bad, but overall I think it's a move in the right direction.
I plan on updating today.
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Was downloading, download failed after a few minutes....can't get a connection anymore.
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Games Meister
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From what I read I may not even have the room if I wanted to after downloading the GTA iFruit app last night.
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Originally Posted by davidflas
Was downloading, download failed after a few minutes....can't get a connection anymore.
Same thing just happened to me. Rebooted the phone thinking it might help but no dice. Fail. You'd think that they'd be prepared for this by now.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
From what I read I may not even have the room if I wanted to after downloading the GTA iFruit app last night.
Ya, it asks for a whopping 3.1GB of free space even though the download is only 752MB.
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Originally Posted by gradient
Same thing just happened to me. Rebooted the phone thinking it might help but no dice. Fail. You'd think that they'd be prepared for this by now.
It shouldn't be a surprise Apple ****s up a cloud download.
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Originally Posted by gradient
Ya, it asks for a whopping 3.1GB of free space even though the download is only 752MB.
I would guess that extra space is redundancy incase it shits the bed during install.
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Originally Posted by subego
It shouldn't be a surprise Apple ****s up a cloud download.
You're right, sadly, it's not a surprise. I still expect better, though.
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Clinically Insane
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Originally Posted by gradient
Ya, it asks for a whopping 3.1GB of free space even though the download is only 752MB.
The download is verified, then extracted, and then installed.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
The download is verified, then extracted, and then installed.
Makes sense. I don't remember iOS 6 having the same space requirement, but it's likely that I just had the free space at the time so didn't get a warning.
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Clinically Insane
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The only thing I really have a problem with is having to use iTunes 11 for iOS7.
God I hate that shit.
It's more responsive, but fuuuuuuuuuuuck
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Clinically Insane
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I almost never use iTunes. What's the new deal?
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
The only thing I really have a problem with is having to use iTunes 11 for iOS7.
God I hate that shit.
It's more responsive, but fuuuuuuuuuuuck
I'm still madly in love with 11. The windows version, especially, is a million times more usable than previous versions.
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Games Meister
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All I know is I stayed on 9 forever because they screwed up how the artwork behaves. Had to upgrade for the damn iPhone finally.
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I am pretty excited for it. Curmudgeons will get over UI changes like they always do.
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Clinically Insane
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I'm not waiting BTW. Updating right now.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
This was never in doubt.
I smirked.
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Oddly enough, guess which icon was broken before this update?
Larger font sizes are nice though.
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Clinically Insane
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Failed verification.
[shakes fist]
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Originally Posted by subego
I smirked.
I'm an easy target.
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6 hours remaining
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It worked, I'm in! Liking what changes I've gotten my fingers on so far.
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iPad mini, done.
iPhone 4, not yet. May wait to see how it runs for others first.
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It'll be much easier if you just comply.
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Clinically Insane
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Candy Crush...
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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Clinically Insane
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Things I immediately like:
1-flick to Bluetooth.
The new magnifying glass
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Clinically Insane
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The battery indicator looks like a condom.
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Originally Posted by Spheric Harlot
I'm an easy target.
And masterful at the setup in a way only Prussians can be.
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Games Meister
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Is there a good article somewhere that summarizes the key features in iOS 7. At the very least I'm curious.
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Clinically Insane
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Well, I've got the thing right here (so you don't have to).
First big feature: swipe from the bottom.
Swiping up from the bottom gives you easy access to basic functions. Airplane mode, wifi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, rotate lock, brightness, playback control, volume, AirDrop, AirPlay, flashlight, timer, calculator, and camera.
More to come...
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Clinically Insane
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Airport wifi limits me to 500MB per session, it will be about 30 hours before I'm home and can upgrade.
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Originally Posted by subego
Well, I've got the thing right here (so you don't have to).
You keep including those pics and I'm in.
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First gripe: The new folder view. I like multiple pages within a folder, but why can I only see 9 app icons per page? Needless swiping.
Also, not a fan of the animations when unlocking the phone and opening/closing folders. Looks slick at first but it does slow down the navigation experience.
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Clinically Insane
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Feature revocation (or bug): four taps to select an entire paragraph no longer works.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
You keep including those pics and I'm in.
Oh... you want pics? I'll give you pics.
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Originally Posted by subego
Oh... you want pics? I'll give you pics.
excuse me while I adjust my sunglasses.
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Originally Posted by subego
Oh... you want pics? I'll give you pics.
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Clinically Insane
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In the "swipe-down" department, notifications now have three tabs.
The first is your calendar, which shows skeuomorphism has been abandoned for "natural language". Weather and tomorrow's schedule are sentences.
My other tabs are empty at the moment.
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Clinically Insane
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Also note, my swipe screens are grey because I took the caps while here in Safari. On your home page you get something like this:
Assuming you have the eye bleeding setup I have here.
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Clinically Insane
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If you post to MacNN on your iDevice, get used to this:
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It's funny. I just displayed an iOS 6 screenshot on my iPhone, and it looked so…quaint.
Took a couple days, though.
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Originally Posted by andi*pandi
The invisible man there on the app formerly known as address book is creeping me out.
Maybe I just need to not check my email so often.
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