BACK TO THE 70S – IOS6 TO IOS 7

BACK TO THE 70S – IOS6 TO IOS 7

Fear not if your iPhone home screen looks washed out like a damaged LCD display after the iOS 7 update, the new update actually looks so. Shadows, textures, strokes and all that beautiful that we once associated with Apple has gone. The faux 3D effect that made images pop and look real has been run over by a road roller with a color palette that bland and garish. It seems as if Apple is migrating back to 16 color display with so much fluorescence that one might need shades to operate it in dark ambience. Alas Retina!

Searches for ‘ugly’ and ‘iOS 7’ are yielding more results for what Apple has described as ‘elegant’, ‘cleaner simpler’. This flat look could be the anti-Christ for designers – Hell anybody can draw straight lines and fill color like MS Paint. The colors are so bright at places that it makes text unreadable too. Think you should buy shares of Apple because the Stock app says there’s been a +50, check again – it could just a +.50! Same goes with the weather, you have to strain your eyes to check the numbers. What does the centre button of the camera (that would probably take monochrome photographs only) say – exit or click?

Not all is so bad with our beloved Apple’s new OS. Excess “chrome” removal from safari gives a cleaner bigger look, though the actual viewport area seems to have been squeezed a bit. The new ‘tidy whites’ keyboard or the calculator on diet is a neutral change. The frameless buttons will take time getting used to. Changes like the neat World Clock and the music player that gives more info are welcome. Could all this be intentional to boost performance or just an experiment gone horribly wrong? And migrations to the new UI that you claim would make everyone looked updated – eh, sorry! Whatever it is, our sincere request to Apple is to undo this and give us back the most important reason why we love Apple.

Checkout the comparison: Even in the iOS6 thumbnails you can see the details.

BACK TO THE 70S – IOS6 TO IOS 7