Everything has a new design: most things that used to look similar to real objects: calculator, notes, are now plain white and helvetica (along with most everything else), perfect for slipping an albino alpaca into a hipster's hands unnoticed.
The calendar has decided it's not important that days be separated by
lines, since we all knew the week runs together between weekends anyway.
It's simply reflecting the state of america's soul.
Many things that were once shiny and modern are now flat and only vaguely metallic if you squint. Messages bubbles. Icons. We go from a shiny tech loving society to a hipster-minimalist pseudo representation of our culture.
The lock screen has a completely new look. And by completely I mean the basic elements are still there, but now the text shows up on the picture instead of black bars, once again making it hipster friendly and more customizeable.
Additionally, if music is playing, the controls show up on the lock screen without a double-click. However the album art is small with a strange amount of space around it, reminding us of emptiness in our souls. This is apparent in the music app itself, as well.
Music most notably has itunes radio, which is pretty much pandora without the ads, because apple can afford to do that and because they love putting other companies out of business.
Safari has now combined the search and address bars so that we can finally stop feeling stupid when our query about salmon saliva returns no results. Also the tab switcher looks like a card index now instead of a flat preview of each page, in a desperate throwback to old library systems, trying to draw in the grannies and granddads to the newest mass technology. Can't forget the old people when you take over the world.
The clock/timer app has the same functionality with a newish design, of course, but its real shining feature is that the clock on the icon now shows the correct time. It's sort of addicting to watch that tiny second hand move around and around, ignoring the fact that there are other obligations to attend to. Now if only the weather app would display the correct number of degrees right on the icon... At least it doesn't lie to us that it's always a sunny 72 anymore.
The weather app underwent a redesign, and while it's tempting to say it is much improved, it really does the exact same things the old one did and the interior does not match the new feel of ios7.
It just feels too detailed, like effort was actually put into the backgrounds and stuff.
Additionally, the average citizen's negligence to assign pictures to their contacts (or the crummy phone-camera quality of said photos) must have influenced the decision to make callers' photos tiny and contained, rather than full screen and friendly. It is depressing and uncalled for.
When dismissing apps, one can preview them fullscreen and flick them away. Perfect for getting distracted again while trying to conserve battery power.
Oh look! Twitter!
All in all ios7 is beautiful, simple, practical, and drains my battery a bit faster.
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