New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Some links:

I have a big issue with the oversized copy hitting the edges of buttons http://sloppyui.tumblr.com
I got a few useful tips from this: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/18/4741412/the-best-hidden-features-in-ios-7

for example
http://31.media.tumblr.com/a7e85138d70aaf5efc6e577c91dd6ef6/tumblr_mtdgkaBsCq1sigwgoo1_1280.png

I thought my phone wasn't doing the icon parallax thing everyone is admiring/complaining about, but then I squinted and stared and I could see it happening, so it clearly doesn't jump out at me like it does to some of you. Which is fine, I think!

don't at all mind the parallax, which like you I find unobtrusive, taking time to get used to bungee-jumping in and out of apps tho.

the biggest problem with parallax is that it doesn't add any value at all

it's just shit jerking around for the sake of shit jerking around

otm, same w the zooming apps

yeah, it all feels like powerpoint-presentation-tool-of-the-moment prezi

i fixed my email issues by deleting the accounts and adding them again from scratch on my phone. (using the tickboxes in itunes to replace my phone's info with the info from my computer's email settings didn't work)

i'm a bit miffed at that but on the other hand it's sort of nice to get down into the nitty gritty of a system, set things up, etc.; apple has gotten SO GOOD at seamlessly transferring info from one phone to another, etc, that there's very little thrill left in upgrading to a new phone - everything looks exactly the same, works exactly the same... so at least with a system upgrade there's that luxurious feeling of tinkering away with a bunch of new stuff

the biggest problem with parallax is that it doesn't add any value at all

― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, September 21, 2013 3:21 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm, same w the zooming apps

― Me & Mahomies (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, September 21, 2013 3:24 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i had to guess at their thinking here both of these are part of the larger plan of placing everything in the phone in a physical place, the background is behind everything else and it actually looks like that, the apps live inside the app icons like youre opening a little door and walking in rather than just being something that triggers a new unrelated screen, its generally pretty in line w the iphones interface being closer to literal than metaphoric, eg you dont move a mouse around you just touch the thing you want w yr finger, its p ingenious imho

i do get that, but the parallax is jerky and sputtery at best, and it works to enhance exactly nothing. at least the bungy zooming gives a prezi-alike sense of place.

the problem i have with this parallax thing is almost exactly the problem i have with 3d glasses—gimmickry is employed to tell you something that you already know. obviously the icons are 'in front' of the wallpaper because that's how the whole device works. (same with all the literal zooming, but to a leaser extent.)

followed the recommendations for prolonging battery life, seems to work for when the phone's at rest but using it still murders it. left it unplugged last night and had 100% at 830, now it's 10 and after using only google maps for an hour I'm down to 54%.

having got the shits with the battery life of every iphone ever, i bought an external recharge pack months ago and just live off that. ios 7 probably destroys my battery too, but i don't give it a chance to matter.

using the gps is pretty battery intensive in general

meanwhile my iphone 4 on ios6 is at 92%

i do get that, but the parallax is jerky and sputtery at best, and it works to enhance exactly nothing. at least the bungy zooming gives a prezi-alike sense of place.

― obi wankin' obi (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, September 21, 2013 9:54 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my guess once people develop a mental image on a quasi subconscious level of ios as a 3d space these effects will improve usability, tho ur a tech dude who im sure is really good at using such things already so maybe it doesnt matter to you, but i think its super clever and subtle, lol everyone talking abt it being flat

tho i dont really understand being mad at parallax, its not very intrusive, most people dont even notice its there

yeah, parallax never bothered me

in other news, my iphone 5 is at 27%. so, 4 hour battery life? awesome.

yeah i had to change wallpapers to something with a horizon before i was even able to understand it

my iPhone 5 life seems to have increased after the update, edward I bet if u run google maps on your 4 the battery life will also plummet

yeah my battery life is better than before i think

well I'm not running google maps anymore, just ilx/FB use for the past 90 minutes and I'm at 15%.

11%

liveblogging my battery death

only thing running is safari lol

dead @ 3 hrs 45 min, a new record

dang

Mine's the same pretty much.

parallax looks fine to me

what's the point of any graphical anything on a phone? to make it look and feel nicer. what, you want a command line interface?

but it doesnt look and feel nicer to me, good thing they gave me a way to turn it off tho.

it's awesome

corporate day at cricket with software developers, and project manager next to me referred to android and eye-oss and I would not have had one fuck what he was on about had it not been for this thread.

I thought about saying 'you said eye-oss' but felt it might be arduous so refrained.

you're all gonna love it in a week just like you all came around on the gold iphone

i didn't

i mean, i wouldn't buy it

unless i had to

you have to

i guess that's that then

sorry you have to buy a gold iphone :/

nothing we can do about it

http://tysiphonehelp.com/storage/post-images/tim%20cook.png

Is the power button click sound more cavernous reverb?
Or i hear thing?

hahaha yeah it's reverb city

my guess once people develop a mental image on a quasi subconscious level of ios as a 3d space these effects will improve usability, tho ur a tech dude who im sure is really good at using such things already so maybe it doesnt matter to you, but i think its super clever and subtle, lol everyone talking abt it being flat

― lag∞n, Sunday, 22 September 2013 00:05 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the complaints i'm hearing most are from people who are not tech minded at all. 'er indoors (only one example) cracked it because her ipad was suddenly doing some movement thing that she couldn't describe, but that had made her feel nauseous; and she had attributed her discomfort to the ~whole~ of ios 7 ('i really don't like that update you put on my ipad'). she never ever mentions her ipad, and she brought this up over dinner when we weren't even talking about ipads.

when i first noticed my phone springboard jiggling (the icon grid in relation to the screen, not the wallpaper in relation to the icon grid), i didn't even realise it was the parallax effect, and very genuinely thought i'd had too many tim tams that morning. it wasn't a subtle and pleasing effect, it was an aberrant jiggle that happened when i was barely moving the phone. it's only because i took comparative screenshots that i know the icons were moving. most users won't even know to do that much.

but eh, you're probably right in users just getting used to it.

what's the point of any graphical anything on a phone? to make it look and feel nicer. what, you want a command line interface?

installing an ssh client on my phone so i could remote login to my good ole unix box was the most delightful thing to ever happen to the phone

otm

you people are savages

interesting http://qz.com/126642/apples-ios7-includes-a-surprise-a-ticket-to-the-next-generation-of-the-internet

Oh, nice.

They also reworked Bluetooth stuff like crazy. Devices that accept notifications can now get every Notification Center update.

Probably will be most visible in that car integration stuff they're pushing, but stuff like Pebble watches work with it.

Whoa, huge, huge improvement in battery life on iOS 7.

At 74% after 15 hours of more frequent use than typical, including a bunch of GPS. It had been going down to ~40% by afternoon on a work day w/ far less use.

dark art, battery life