Chris Harlan
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Charlie Austin] “Agreed, but it’s pretty slick, and I’m sure the tweaks will come as we move along”
What is very weird is that iOS6 already feels really dated. It is astounding how quickly that happened for me (basically, overnight).
It’s like working in X for a while and then going back to 7. I feel cuffed and things move much more slowly.
“Totally agree, but with one small rewrite:
It’s like working in Media Composer or Premiere for a while and then going back to 7. I feel cuffed and things move much more slowly.
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[Charlie Austin] “[Jeremy Garchow] “The performance has been great on an iPhone 5 and iPad 2. It is more fluid than iOS6.”
FWIW, it’s really nice on my 4S as well…
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Yeah. It looks good and works well on my 4S, though I think it will look better on a 5S. On my iPad 3(or whatever we are supposed to call it), I think its a little less than meh, but tolerable.
On the iPhone, the stripped-down, more colorful icons are easier to read. They pop nicely. On the retina iPad, they look threadbare, and the spacing feels a little awkward. I’m guessing it will look better on the mini, and on the iPad 2.
Design-wise, I like this on the phone. My iPad loses, here. Put that’s okay. My phone is far more important to me.
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Downloading now. I repaired permissions. Somehow the installer thought it had downloaded and installed a version of iTunes that it hadn’t.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Today, is in fact, the day!
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It’s not letting me download. I keep getting told that I need to update iTunes, but iTunes tells me I’m up to date and that there is nothing to download. I’m guessing the error messages are actually meaningless, and that the servers are clogged.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I am already finding iOS7 to be much more pleasant. Everything has a purpose, it’s not just eye candy to make you think you are holding a leather book, or pressing down a “button” on a flat object. There seems to be some gratuitous animation, but what else is new in Apple land?
“Today’s the day, ain’t it? Maybe I’ll jump in with the iPad first and test the water.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “[Chris Harlan] “I prefer the iWork icons, but that’s life in the big city.”
So you are a fan of the skeumorph?
“No! We already done danced this dance. Iconography and skeumorphism are separate concerns. Just because an icon has more detail or is more photorealistic or traditionally drawn doesn’t make that icon any more or less skeumorphic than an icon with a more abstract representation. Skeumorphism has nothing to do with them.
My taste for the skeumorphic is mixed. Its at its worst when it actually gets in the way of computer use with fake old-timey toggle switches, but I don’t mind a mixer looking like a mixer. Something like Notepad is mildly annoying, more because of the default script font than the look of a notepad, but I get by with it even though I don’t like the look. I’m sure I’ll feel the same about this new look after awhile. It ain’t me, but, oh well.
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I just think they look threadbare. To me, they’re bland AND uninspired. Doubtless, I’ll get used to them. Maybe its because I’m a parent, and have seen–a decade ago–so many educational widgets that look like this that I’m finding it a little toxic. It doesn’t feel at all new to me; it feels like 2004 kid-edtion design has taken over.
I prefer the iWork icons, but that’s life in the big city.
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[John Davidson] “the iCloud page uses bokeh circles”
That’s funny. I didn’t see those as bokeh because they are not out of focus anything, but now that you say it, I do see it. Actually, what they most remind me of are floaters in the vitreous humor.
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[Oliver Peters] “I logged in to the iCloud’s web service tonight for my mail and noticed the new design roll-out, which has been “iOS7-ified”. Man, is it butt-ugly!! “
Just checked it out. It reminds me a bit of “Hello Kitty” without any actual cats. I don’t hate it as much as you do, but it does feel sugary, and a lot like what I might expect from a pre-teen chat room or educational homepage. I keep thinking that if I click on one of those bubbles it will open an Easter Egg.
I guess it might work well with the new brightly colored phones. Maybe it will grow on me.
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[Oliver Peters] “Though not identical, AvidFX is a companion compositor, just like Motion. FWIW – AvidFX also adds a healthy set of BCC and FEC filters, but there are very nice filters in X and Motion. So I consider that more or less equal.
“I like AvidFX enough that I bought Red to go with Premiere.