The newest Apple software iOS 7 released Sep.18, fails to deliver the greatness that was promised.
Introducing a flat interface and new designs for the app logos that is closer to an Android than classic Apple look. The words that come to mind when describing the new look, is “childish” and “plain.” The apps are slightly bigger, so there is less white space. It looks too cramped.
The addition of a menu that pulls up with shortcuts to settings, music and applications. The drop down menu has also been updated. It now has three specific tab, splitting notifications, weather, stocks and missed notifications.
A change in the animation is the biggest issue I have with the new software. It makes closing and opening folders and applications much slower. It adds an extra step, and thus makes it slower and more actions to do anything with the phone. If you have to do anything quickly you have to wait for the phone to open the folder, app zoom in on the screen and then its an extra click to open into the app.
The shortcut to access running apps is still a double-click of the home button but instead of lifting the home screen and showing the app. It now zooms out of the current screen to show the screen of the app to the side of the screen. This also slows down the process of accessing apps.
Another major installment that Apple pushed was their creation of a radio, that takes a song, artist, album or genre and generates a playlist selects similar songs to play. It is almost identical to other internet radio applications such as Pandora, Spotify and Songza, which have been popularly used long before this new Apple Radio.
This update is not Apple. It’s Apple trying to hard to be edgy and mirror the appealing features of Android software but it comes off as trying too hard and too late.
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