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It's looking snazzy so far. Really like how clean it all looks. Given up trying to update it on my iPad, however. It was telling me it was going to take 9 hours to download, so fuck that until tomorrow.
 
Gonna wait to see how it beds in with the early downloaders...
I have 2+ yr old iphone 4, wonder how it will impact it's performance? Anyone else updating an iphone 4 to iOS7, lemme know.
 
I don't actually like how it looks. Though I expect in a few months I'll have forgotten what it used to look like. But too many of the icons look crap and it just feels... cluttered, much more so than it used to with exactly the same number of icons and groups. I'll work out why it feels like that.
 
Just waiting for my install to finish - anyone who gets to the end of the download process and gets an "unavailable at this time" message - it's just the verification servers taking a hammering. Quit the update process and go back in, hit install again and it will re-query the verification server. Mine got it on the third attempt. No biggie.
 
I like so far, nice sleek design, like the dynamic wallpapers, but hope they'll become customizable.

One beef I have is that now it shows all unread mail on the server, rather than just syncing the last year or so...... I've now got 400 unread emails.

I'll be interested to see how my battery life does with it
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
I've got the download but haven't been able to get the verification bit done for over half an hour now.
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I had that problem on my wifi, but then it worked first time over my iPhones 3G (with personal hotspot installing ios 7 on my ipad).

I think the servers are just getting hammered.
 
Got it installed on my iPad. First thought: fucking hell this shit is bright! Everything is just bright. Need to turn down screen brightness another 20% I reckon...
 
verification took many attempts, then I tried restarting the phone instead and that kicked in the install of the (already downloaded) update.

Initial thoughts are it'll take some getting used to aesthetically, but the new features are all going to be handy, some much more than others no doubt.

Animations when coming in and out of screens are a touch slow. Possibly not an issue on newer models than my 4s...

Overall, glad I updated.


edit - it thinks I'm in a different time zone...15:01 apparently
 
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FridgeMagnet said:
But too many of the icons look crap and it just feels... cluttered, much more so than it used to with exactly the same number of icons and groups.
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It does look quite busy. It seems you can now add more icons to folders which might be useful, but it might make it harder to find apps that are hidden away on the second page
 
They've certainly got some work to do on the usability of the UX - though it's a lot better than some of the earlier iterations - they've fattened some of the fonts and changed the backgrounds. That said, I'm still quite surprised about how... unintuitive some of the simple actions are, now that they've taken away the defined swipes and stuff. I'm sure the much maligned Scott Forstall is having an interesting day looking at the feedback... There was reason for font shadows, outlines and the like - Usability!
 
I'll give it a few weeks. That's always annoyed me about iOS, not being able to roll back to previous version. iOS 5 has made my Ipod 3G frustratingly slow. Still gets used as a media thingy plugged into stereo.
 
The default Calendar and Reminder is still no match for Cal and Any Do. Far too fiddly and lacking the simple ease of use of C and A...the default Weather doesn't come close to the excellent Yahoo weather either.
 
dogmatique said:
They've certainly got some work to do on the usability of the UX - though it's a lot better than some of the earlier iterations - they've fattened some of the fonts and changed the backgrounds. That said, I'm still quite surprised about how... unintuitive some of the simple actions are, now that they've taken away the defined swipes and stuff. I'm sure the much maligned Scott Forstall is having an interesting day looking at the feedback... There was reason for font shadows, outlines and the like - Usability!
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What do you mean about taking swipes away? As far as I can tell they're all still the same.

I quite like it, the folder backgrounds is slightly odd at first but seems very dependant on the wallpaper you have as they react to the colour behind the,. A few I tried look awful, but others look great.

Also, airdrop, yes. This will be a very useful thing for me.
 
FridgeMagnet said:
I don't actually like how it looks. Though I expect in a few months I'll have forgotten what it used to look like. But too many of the icons look crap and it just feels... cluttered, much more so than it used to with exactly the same number of icons and groups. I'll work out why it feels like that.
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this, I fucking hate how it looks. did a 7 year old design it?
 
In fact the calendar is now almost impossible for me to read properly because it's muted all the calendar colours and made everything really white

fucking genius apple, well done, for those of us with reading issues this is JUST what I didn't need :mad:

e2a - the new evernote looks really fucking shit too - jesus christ
 
And while I'm at it, while folders are now multi paged, each page is smaller, and I organised my folders on the basis that everything in them would be visible when opened, not that I'd have to swipe again to get to them. If you see what I mean. Anyway, cunts.
 
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