Owen Smith wrote: > Thanks. I'm still running iOS 6 on my iPad 3 at the moment so can't use > iPeng 7, but it's nice to keep up to date with what is available. I'm > generally a late adopter when it comes to upgrades, and I actually like > the iOS 6 look and feel and I'll probably hold off until I really have > to upgrade (for whatever reason). I've seen iOS 7 at work and I'm > underwhelmed. Readability has taken a nose dive, there's no graphical > contrast in anything. (OK, so it looks cool, but is is readable? The > eternal dilemma.) I'm rambling, sorry.
I've heard this comment a few times and while I see a number of issues with iOS 7, technical as well as design wise this one is one I really don't understand. iOS 7 generally has more contrast than any other mobile OS short of Windows Phone that I've seen, definitely much more than the previous iOS versions due to the removal of all the gradients. And font handling is the one thing that definitely improved, it's much, much more powerful than before. The biggest issues I see (design wise) are that it can be hard to tell buttons from text at times and that Apps often use smaller font sizes. Technically, the large number of bugs plus the performance issues I wrote about are a problem. For me there are two things that make it especially worthwhile. As you can see in iPeng 2.0 I've long been a fan of flat design and didn't particularly like all the gradients used in iOS. And having used the old scheme for six years it just looked so terribly dated to me at the end.... But I agree, I sometimes feel iOS 7 might be something more made for designers than users (you won't find a lot of designers who don't like it) and from those subtle changes Apple has made since it went live you can clearly see that Apple got the message to a certain degree, too. Even in such simple things that it's now possible to actually chose the color for bars, something that was actually extremely hard until iOS 7.0.2 so that people like me wrote their own bar classes to get around it (wonder how dark mode in iPeng 7 now looks on iOS 7.0). --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 7, the Universal App for iOS 7* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=51929 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list plugins@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
