“After managing to pick up one of the last of two space grey iPhone 5s at my local Verizon store, I must ask those who say that Apple can’t innovate anymore to please be quiet,” Dennis Sellers reports for Apple Daily Report. “The latest incarnation of Apple’s high-end smartphone is a thing of beauty and a fantastic phone/camera combo.”
“As for iOS 7, I’m not yet sure I prefer it over the “skeumorphism” appearance of iOS 6,” Sellers reports. “At first glance it’s almost too ‘cartoony,’ but after using it for three days I’ve at least adapted to its ‘flat’ appearance.”
MacDailyNews Take: Give it a bit more time (we’ve been using iOS 7 throughout its 3-month beta period) and you’ll never want to go back to iOS 6.
Sellers reports, “The iPhone 5s is an excellent gadget. It’s a great phone, a great camera and a great camcorder, all in a handsome body that will fit in your pocket. What more do you want? ADR rating: 10 out of 10.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Johnny Ives sleeps well at night, know intuitively that the world+dog will love or come to love his design? On the other hand, Julie Larson-Green must be considering going into hiding after the Windoze drones failed to take to the win 8 tit.
While I think that iOS 7 is more elegant than 6, it is more difficult to read with all of it’s thin lines, at least for users in their 40’s and beyond. I certainly think it is less attractive on non-retina displays and I know of a few iPad 2 and iPad mini users who find it lifeless and dull.
Enable Bold Text on non retina iPads and it will fix that issue. Just go into the Accessibility settings.
OMG that is so much better! Thank the maker!
I want it to bold the keyboard letters – as they are when I’m posting this
Maybe you should learn how to type without using only one finger. Or better yet, use Siri. I am in my 40’s and have no issue finding where the letter F and J are on my keyboard.
Just saying.
I set the text to bold and have been much happier.
Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Bold Text: On
cool
wish there was a setting for “skeumorphism” to be “on”
I heard its coming in 7.02
just like Save As… the people have spoken
Adjust the fonts. 😛
Also increasing contrast in the same access ability setting helps. Very happy now that I have made those changes. This should however be fixed in a future update, standard view is not good enough.
Twodales, what’s to fix? You’ve sorted what was an issue TO YOU, by just making a change given to you in settings, which is exactly as it should be. You have an option, you’ve used that option; job done.
Don’t try to force your choice onto others who are perfectly happy with the default.
No need to go wacko over that comment. I think what he meant was to make the choice easier and more obvious. I agree with this 100%
I think iOS should have a Text setting combining the Text Size and Text Bold options. I also think the Bold setting should apply to more text in the iOS. For example, it doesn’t change the width of the text in the keyboard “keys”. I find them still too thin.
Then write up a bug.. bugreport.apple.com
I’m 63. I did a bit of customizing- I see no reason for any complaints. I love the look. My eyes aren’t great but I have no problem with the phone. Lifeless? Dull? Use dark wallpaper for contrast. And yes, bold text.
For those who find the fonts too thin or difficult to read, one can go to settings>general>accessibility and change the font to bold and increase text size if one likes larger text.
The Verge gave it an 8.8. Something about screen size. What an absolute joke.
By the way, MDN, for all your raving about iOS 7, it’s jarring to launch your iPhone app and have the old keyboard pop up and the screen be scrunched to 3.5″. Really, it’s time to update, regardless of your ad revenues.
That has been bugging me too, ever since I got the iPhone 5 a year ago. Perhaps MDN refuses to pay for an update because he thinks its some kind of secret Obama tax. Socialism… or something. 😉
The mobile site is easier to monetize as well. MDN’s servers don’t run for free, ya know.
Lots of things not worth doing on mobile in a web browser yet, and I always wonder why they haven’t joined the mobile age yet. But even their iPhone app doesn’t fit?! That’s crazy!
(Always get my MDN on desktop at work, so no need to even look for the app. 😛 )
MDN announced a couple of years ago after a user survey that they would not be updating its mobile app because most readers preferred the mobile site. I don’t know why they still make it available, except maybe just as a marketing ploy.
Crap, I missed that! Guess I’ll make a shortcut for the mobile site… I do like how the app tells you how many new stories there are, though.
Christ, are we now going to have to put up with BLN’s incessant whining about the look of iOS 7, along with the larger screen demand that had gotten old two years ago?
Bored, now.
BLN is narcissistic!
Why bother to answer!!
iOS 7 is growing on me the more I use it. The flat icons are taking some getting used to, but I love the overall look. On a retina display, the new fonts look incredible.
And there are so many improvements that most people probably haven’t experienced them all. Like the messages app, where you no longer have to scroll to the top of a conversation to reveal the “Call” button (just tap “Contact”). Or the full audio controls, with playback progress, from the lockscreen.
I’m about 3.5 days in, and iOS 6 is already starting to seem primitive by comparison.
——RM
Given that you make a constant big show about your refusal to upgrade to iOS 7, why would anyone pay attention to the opinion of a man who refuses even to use the software?
Just give it up. Sheesh, you sound like those people back in 2001 who wouldn’t stop mourning for OS 9.
——RM
I was an OS 9 pro, and am still an OS X newb. 🙁
Not denying the advantages or advances, but I could really get under the hood of OS9.
I also changed the oil on my ’65 ‘Stang myself. Don’t anymore on the 2013 van. (Bad comparison here, because I would love to still have the old pony. 🙂 )
As a user since an apple II. And One that has never operated a windows anything,… Yup OS 6,7 and the amazing OS8 and 9 was for power users and it certainly was easier to make it do what most active users wanted, the path of hiding features for the ignorant masses was Steve and joneys idea of making user experience better,.. For the average user, not power users that they obviously really don’t care to support as well as the low end masses at the other end of the scale,.. Designing pretty things for the lowest common denominator that’s apples recent focus, make those stock holders happy.
That’s because the Mac OS by System 9 was so cobbled together with bits from here, pieces from there, etc. etc. that it was basically held together with string, gum and MacGyver magic.
OS X was designed to keep users from having to interact with command lines, have to delete extensions, dig down to various settings, etc. You know, the things that the vast majority of computer users never do.
iOS 7 not only doesn’t remove features, it makes them easier to access and adds even more. The look is different, but otherwise iOS is more powerful and easier to use than iOS 6.
untrue…
a 3 year old has been loving iOS5 & 6 for a good number of years but once updating – the learning curve hindered his use of the device drastically.
its familiar but new – not easier
I know this is a small item, but I love the compass and level app. Just beautiful. I had 4 apps that did similar stuff but none as refined as Apples. Everyone at work I suggest they take a look at it and 100% are impressed. Not a big deal, but just a sample of what will be coming soon.
Here’s a compass goodie that’s not obvious. Just tap on the heading you want and a red line will appear so you can have an indicator of the desired heading.
BTW: This works in the level as well. If you tilt the level off 0 degree and tap the screen, a red line will appear at that degree.
wow, thanks!
Now Apple just needs to update Find My iPhone for iOS 7, and I mean more than just the icon. It doesn’t have an iOS 7 look and still uses the old keyboard.
What more do you want from iPhone 5s? Um… let me think… a lower price???????????? That’s Apples downfall.
Though everyone will have an opinion .. I do not like the candy colors .. I feel / wish it would have a ‘sober’ or ‘earth’ color theme also given as an option … That in itself would be a feature !
Personally – don’t like the 5c colors either – though i have yet to see all of them live ..