04-20-2014, 11:24 PM
john-o wrote:
"Colossal screwup"? You gotta be kidding me. I know there are aspects that are less-than-perfect, but I think you're making Mt. Everest out of a molehill. There are more than enough welcome new features to make it worth getting used to the 'flat' look. But seriously, even that's not THAT bad!
I disagree completely. I wasn't talking about the under the hood features. I was talking about the completely FUBARED UI. The UI is arguably the feature that made the iPhone the market leader. They've thrown the skeuomorphic baby out with the bathwater and seem to have picked colors and icon use randomly, whereas previously the UI was a model of intuitive simplicity. Whereas it was previously easy to glance at a screen with multiple visual clues as to how it worked, now it is difficult to figure out on many screens what are buttons, what are swipe directions, etc. Not only that, but the various colors and icons are now inconsistent between different screens and apps, even apple apps. Add to that the ridiculously skinny fonts that people over 50 can't even read and you have a COLOSSAL SCREWUP! What is really telling is that I know two people who have recently bought iPhones for the first time and they just can't figure some things out at all (for example the pinball style selection boxes, which had an obvious function before but now are completely cryptic.
Even if you can actually figure out how to work this thing, why oh why did apple choose to mimic the styleless google and Microsoft Windows 8 interface look.