I have never been an apple fan boy. But i love what they did to smartphones, more or less influenced everyone else to follow suit , and made some pretty darn good looking mp3 players. Now , this iOS 7 UI update has been doing the rounds , and i know a huge majority of designers dont like it . Majority ? Ok , i take that back . A lot of them dont like it .Much better. Now.. Do i care ?
No. Why ? Well , firstly , apple should get over their iPhone fetishes. Their device is easily more than 6 years old in terms of everything . The way it looks , feels , works , everything . They have their retina display going for them . Yes, most of their stuff works like Android and Windows ,but who are we kidding here ? None of the phones that are actually out today do any justice to what could have been. Nokia genuinely tried to bring some innovation in , but alas , they had to depend on windows. I would like to believe that we are investing way too much in hyping up stuff and technology, advertising and releasing too many phones. iPhone 5 is just a way to say , oh hold on , we have a new phone ! iOS 7 is a new way of saying that "Oh wait, we can have colors in our OS too..!". The same does apply to Samsung who for whatever reason released samsung galaxy s4 . Now , we all know that its got nothing special except more RAM and possibly a new processor. For the hype its getting , it looks like most people are made to believe that its an entirely new phone , and its no less than the hype smartphones got when they first came out (more or less ?) . In my opinion , with a new release of a new "landmark" phone or OS ( iOS7 , biggest change since iOS - remember ?) ,there is no sense of purpose that actually needs to be really fulfilled. Updates to the iOS 7 / Jelly bean have been nothing but cosmetic , and even multitasking features have been long overdue , and shouldnt be treated as something "landmark".
The simple rule is that we all want something new , and if its iPhone 4 vs iPhone 5 , we choose 5 , simply because its slightly better. So yeah , apple fanboys will be apple fanboys for quite some more time . Unless google does something like a science fiction version of a phone . Reality check acheived.
No. Why ? Well , firstly , apple should get over their iPhone fetishes. Their device is easily more than 6 years old in terms of everything . The way it looks , feels , works , everything . They have their retina display going for them . Yes, most of their stuff works like Android and Windows ,but who are we kidding here ? None of the phones that are actually out today do any justice to what could have been. Nokia genuinely tried to bring some innovation in , but alas , they had to depend on windows. I would like to believe that we are investing way too much in hyping up stuff and technology, advertising and releasing too many phones. iPhone 5 is just a way to say , oh hold on , we have a new phone ! iOS 7 is a new way of saying that "Oh wait, we can have colors in our OS too..!". The same does apply to Samsung who for whatever reason released samsung galaxy s4 . Now , we all know that its got nothing special except more RAM and possibly a new processor. For the hype its getting , it looks like most people are made to believe that its an entirely new phone , and its no less than the hype smartphones got when they first came out (more or less ?) . In my opinion , with a new release of a new "landmark" phone or OS ( iOS7 , biggest change since iOS - remember ?) ,there is no sense of purpose that actually needs to be really fulfilled. Updates to the iOS 7 / Jelly bean have been nothing but cosmetic , and even multitasking features have been long overdue , and shouldnt be treated as something "landmark".
The simple rule is that we all want something new , and if its iPhone 4 vs iPhone 5 , we choose 5 , simply because its slightly better. So yeah , apple fanboys will be apple fanboys for quite some more time . Unless google does something like a science fiction version of a phone . Reality check acheived.
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