“You probably feel strongly about iOS 7. Maybe you love it. Maybe you hate it. Maybe you just can’t get over that Safari icon (what were they thinking!?),” Kyle Vanhemert reports for Wired. “But change is polarizing, and this is a fairly big change, so the general freak-out is understandable. Soon enough, though, you’ll get used to it, and iOS 6 will be the one that looks weird.”
“But the shake-up won’t end this week. Apple’s new OS isn’t just a wham-bam makeover–at least, it isn’t only that. In months and even years to come, iOS 7 will set a different trajectory for apps, changing not just how they look, but how they work, and in some cases, who’s building them, too,” Vanhemert reports. “A phone full of fresh new apps is a nice treat today, but the most exciting thing about iOS 7 is the groundwork it lays for the future–the space it clears for a new generation of apps yet to be cooked up. As Jony Ive has said, iOS 7 isn’t just a new direction; in many ways, it’s a beginning.”
Vanhemert reports, “For a sense of what the next generation of apps might look like, look no further than the ones Apple includes with the new OS. Instead of a suite of glossy applications, unified by their rigid adherence to pseudo-physicality, they’re now a collection of simple but distinctly independent tools. Each looks and works totally different from the rest–which makes sense, considering that voice recorders and calendars and compasses all pose their own problems and demand their own solutions.”
Much more in the full article here.