So the rumours all said that we'd be seeing a cleaner, stripped back UI from Jonny Ive. Some said it'd be black or white, some said there'd be a move toward Microsoft's simpler plain-jane theme.
Now it's finally here, well, it is cleaner, stripped back, and has several nods not only to Windows Phone, but also to Android in some areas.
The new iconography is easy on the eye, they really do look like beautiful icons. Great. But, I wanted more than this, a bigger change. Because when all is said and done, Apple has made several enhancements to iOS, and yes it IS the biggest change to iOS since the first iPhone as Tim Cook put it, BUT, to me it just feels like the same old thing. It is still just a whole set of icons that you can between.
Where are the widgets?
Where is the data at a glance?
They introduced the "Control Center" by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, so it's a little like Jelly Bean's quick settings access from the notifications area. This was expected, rather than an innovative new feature.
They've organised the "Notifications Center" a little better and tacked like a 'today' view or something to it. Did they fix the ability to dismiss individual notification? Have those user concerns been addressed? Well?
The lively wallpaper thing in the background sounds cool and looks cool on screen, but I have a feeling it's going to be make people dizzy.
It's flatter looking, no skeuomorphism. Good. It's about time. Skeuomorphism should be outlawed, punishable by having to watch Will Smith's After Earth on repeat for 24 hours.
I could go on all day about all the little tweaks and changes that have been made but, this is version SEVEN of the iOS, and it's taken this long to get to this. But after all is said and done, it's still the same operating system, I don't think anything revolutionary has occurred here, just some small overdue evolutionary things.
Even so, I can't wait to get it in the Autumn.
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