Apple has released updates to the iPhone at irregular intervals since the phone was first launched in 2007, but the update released last week – iOS 7 – is perhaps the single biggest upgrade phone has got some time.
operating system is a result of Apple’s design guru Jonathan Ive – the genius designer behind the design of almost all iconic Apple products – now also taken over responsibility for the software company.
not universally loved
The new chief software has gotten a serious makeover. Ive dropped almost all the design elements that have tried to imitate the real world, such as leather edges, and he has also removed most of shadowing.
Kongstanken to Ive always been things to be pure, and iOS 7 is therefore flatter and whiter than what we already know.
The update seems to be on everyone’s lips these days, and general tone is that the operating system simply does not look particularly good. Below are just some of the feedback we have seen and heard in recent days:
- Hubba bubba operating system
- Looks like something made for children
- Should be possible to switch between several “themes”
- Have not found anything I like yet
- For many animations and slow
ZDNet believes that Apple seems to go through a kind of midlife crisis cell, where one has cast on unnecessary animations and background gyroskoptilpasset, but points out that the shell appears to be the same mature operating system.
Other media highlights mostly the same things, but points out that iOS 7 has received some very essential features – in particular when the new control center – which makes it worth upgrading
Pros and Cons
After using the new update in a few days, we have not quite decided whether we like it or not.
On the one hand, the new user interface given parts of the phone a bit more elegant feel, and has included a number of new features which we appreciate.
On the other hand, there are not any upgrades that feels like a step in the right direction. Something is more cumbersome, and something does not work as well as a plan. Not least, there are some elements that have physically diminished, and thus a bit harder to hit.
Ars Technica reported include a decrease in battery life of an iPad 2 with over ten percent by upgrading. Worse still, with their test on the iPhone 5 – which we have tested – where battery capacity has dropped by 30 percent crazy.
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