“The new update to the iPhone and iPad operating system is much more than just a fresh veneer. Beyond its flattened user interface that no longer tries to mimic real-life textures, you’ll find that iOS has been rethought as much as its been redesigned,” Adrian Covert reports for CNNMoney.
“Every core app that Apple includes with iOS has been given a facelift. In many cases, those apps have been newly conceived,” Covert reports. “New features like Control Center, which lets you quickly tweak settings, appears ripped straight from Google. A new card metaphor for app switching first appeared on the ill-fated Palm Pre in 2009. In iOS 7, every app will have the ability to run in the background and update itself without user interaction, just like Android. And the daily agenda view in Notification Center very much feels like a response to Google Now.”
Covert reports, “Still, these much-needed, overdue changes address some substantial problems that had been plaguing iOS for years. Just because Apple didn’t think up these ideas doesn’t mean that iOS isn’t better for employing them, and adopting the better parts of its competition only helps to accentuate Apple’s undeniable strengths, such as its app ecosystem. And even if they’re less pronounced, Apple still showed off some new innovations in iOS 7. Apple didn’t just go ‘flat’ with its new user interface — it went one step further than what Android and Windows Phone have been doing. Apple skillfully used layers and translucency to re-introduce a sense of depth to iOS.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
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