“Have Apple engineers been drinking too much champagne ahead of the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C launch?” Bryan M. Wolfe asks for AppAdvice. “How else can one explain the strange state of iOS 7 heading in the U.S. Labor Day weekend?”
“Most in the technology community may be sold on the radical new redesign that is iOS 7. Once you get past the power users, however, Apple has a lot of explaining to do. That will be much harder to do given the current state of iOS 7 in the three month beta process,” Wolfe writes. “Numerous developers in recent days have told us that iOS 7, especially on the iPad, isn’t anywhere ready for a public launch. Screen locks, strange fonts, and incorrect image placements are just some of the issues we’ve heard about the sixth iOS 7 beta, which was released way back on Thursday, Aug. 15.”
Wolfe writes, “On the iPhone, iOS 7 appears much more solid. Still, even here most developers we’ve spoken to hope that Apple releases one more beta before launching the final, gold master (GM) version. Sept. 10 is now just two weeks away.”
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MacDailyNews Take: A little birdy tells us that iOS 7 will be a dual-pronged release: First with new iPhone/iPod touch models, and then, a month or so later, with new iPad/iPad mini models.
Yes.
Note that Apple hasn’t announced any release date yet. Plus, Apple can announce new iPhones, take pre-orders, and ship 3-4 weeks later if it needs to delay. In addition, iOS 7 doesn’t need to be released to current iPhone/iPad/iPod users right away.
The iphone version is pretty solid. I think it will be ready to, but the iPad version? Probably not. Hopefully we’ll see another beta soon.
Take your time Apple, get it right. Screw all the impatient little girly girls and whiners out there.
agreed, but take your time and release iPhone and iPad together. Not sure how many games are being developed with spritekit but as its iOS7 only, releasing iPad and iPhone a month apart isn’t the best idea.
Dunno? I think they will get more bang for their buck with separate announcements. The iPad mini retina will be the highlight of the iPad presentation. No use letting the iPad and iPad mini play second fiddle at an iPhone release party. Everybody likes a party. Marketing. The biggest part of marketing is your advertising. With separate releases you allow the media/press to give you millions of dollars worth of free advertising. By September the media will have suddenly discovered that Apple has started innovating again! Imagine that.
Exactly. Apple executives routinely say “hundreds of millions of dollars worth of free press” per event.
“Take your time” to get it right? Absolutely!
But working weekends wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Yeap. it is better to wait for perfection than immediate sloppy job.
FUD, Q.E.D.
It absolutely makes sense to release iOS 7 separately for iPhone and iPad, like the new hardware products will be released. No reason to worry so far.
Of course Sir Ive can’t have it ready by September: He’s just one guy. Why is it that they guy responsible for the look of the product is responsible for the ship date? Apple’s tradition is to work outward from the core, building and debugging the frameworks that applications build upon, and worrying about the look (that portion that isn’t driving the underlying frameworks) later. Once the foundation is solid you can confidently spend time cleaning up the interface.
It’s never Sir I’ve. It’s always Sir Jony or Sir Jony Ive ( when introducing him). Get that right, at least.
Ive, of course, not I’ve. Damn Autocorrect.
Dumb headline.
The design work is only a fraction of what needs to be done.
The headline is less “dumb” when you know that Jony Ive is in charge of the entire iOS project. It’s not released until Ive says it’s ready.
Do people really think Apple engineers have been sitting there twiddling their thumbs these past few weeks? Of course not. It’s nose to the ground working on getting this ready for a September release.
Pretty much a non-event anyway. It’s nothing like it once was even if the lemming crowd acts like it is. It will be launched, there will be a short reaction to how “neat” a couple of new features are it is then we’ll move on. A little later we will look back and find the answer to our disappointment. It’s the Tim Cook age, folks. And it is what it is.
Now launch your “troll” responses because you have nothing else with which to support your blind following of the failed CEO of a once great company.
Agreed…
I don’t think Apple has announced it as golden master yet. So with that I believe there will probably be another release of the beta which will clean up the things going on on the iPad. Oh and I seriously doubt anyone at Apple is doing anything but working there butts off to make sure things go smoothly for whenever the releases happen with new products and IOS. This guy is jumping the gun a little to soon. Another thing to keep in mind is that Apple hasn’t officially announced any keynote or event yet even though the press believes it to be in early September.
Hopefully the shitware that is iOS 7 will remain a perpetual beta and calmer heads will prevail.
All Ive had to do was get rid of the felt and such. Nobody wanted a pastel flower-power palette that already looks dated. The look of iOS 7 was like a bad April Fools’ joke- Windows 8 has a drunken hook up with Android UI Skins.
Not putting that POS on my HW.
I could not agree with you more…Ive has ruined what was a unique, special OS and turned it into something both hideous and feminine. Oh well, until it can be jailbroken and someone can produce a Classic View, it’s iOS 6.1.2 for me. Most of the “new” features in iOS 7 have loooong been available via the jailbreak community anyway 🙂
Palette changes according to whats behind it, the pastel like coloring is gone if you have a darker background photo. Try it, you’ll like it Mikey.
I hope they get it together before the launch.