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Very Surprising

So Jony Ive is now responsible for everything that a user see… and touch. So rumors are saying that he now sit on iOS design meetings in order to offer and give advices.

Design is one example of the increased “collaboration across hardware, software and services” that Apple said it was aiming for when Cook pushed senior vice president and mobile software chief Scott Forstall out of the company last year.

So we could expect Apple to take a very global approach with how they design not only their hardware but the software that runs on it. I find it so much surprising for a company where integration is such a big mantra that they didn’t up to now really care to blend the hardware with software in order to perfect this notion of complete integration.

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JFMartin

A "Flat" iOS 7?

parislemon:

Jessica E. Lessin for WSJ:

Some suggested that in Apple’s next mobile operating system, Ive is pushing a more “flat design” that is starker and simpler, according to developers who have spoken to Apple employees but didn’t have further details. Overall, they expect any changes to be pretty conservative. For the past few years, Apple has unveiled versions of its mobile operating system in the summer.

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes…

This is all in-line with a couple of whispers I’ve heard. There will be some fairly significant changes to the design within some key apps and system-level elements, but overall, don’t expect a hugely different iOS.

Perhaps not entirely unrelated, the much-maligned Podcast app got a facelift today.

Apple could be testing the water by sending a few updated apps and see people reactions…

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JFMartin

Reblogged from ParisLemon

thisistheverge: Jony Ive reportedly pushing ‘flat design’ in a newly collaborative environment at Apple Late last October, iOS VP Scott Forstall left Apple and Jony Ive assumed the role of human interface manager across the entire company — including iOS, which some feel is in major need of a design refresh. OK ladies and gentlemen, things are starting to move now! Hang on! I don’t expect a revolution but an evolution. 

thisistheverge:

Jony Ive reportedly pushing ‘flat design’ in a newly collaborative environment at Apple

Late last October, iOS VP Scott Forstall left Apple and Jony Ive assumed the role of human interface manager across the entire company — including iOS, which some feel is in major need of a design refresh.

OK ladies and gentlemen, things are starting to move now! Hang on! I don’t expect a revolution but an evolution. 

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JFMartin

Reblogged from The Verge

That is our fault plain and simple!

So Apple is doomed everybody says. They no longer innovate. Samsung does. Why is the mood so bad about Apple these days? It is because of us, bloggers, Apple enthusiasts. Let me explain.

For years since the return of Steve Jobs at Apple, we believed Apple was unstoppable. We constantly wrote and said that everything Apple was giving us was perfect. We neglected to look at the bad things like MobileMe, Ping and the like. We are still doing it with the messy iCloud contacts syncing and iTunes 11 that is simply a new skin on a ten years old pile of features and unstable junk. We all know that wireless syncing in iTunes since iOS 5 is pretty flaky and doesn’t just works. We all suffer when using the Remote.app on our iPads to connect to an Apple TV and takes forever just to show albums covers. We all suffer when opening the iOS 6 App Store just to find things and are waiting for it to load the first page. We all suffer, quite often with Apple technologies in a way or another. And we are waiting and waiting and waiting for obvious things like some kind of common file system in our iOS devices and easy to access settings in iOS 7. Yet, we continue to write as if Apple was perfect. We must grow up guys.

And you know what, we continue this trend with iOS 7. Many are expecting way too much of this release. In no way Jony Ive will change things in a few months with iOS 7 this year. We should see the reality as it is. We may be waiting for years for basic things to happen on iOS but it takes years to change course on this. We have to face it. I applaud John Gruber for saying the same thing and Business Insider too.

If the mood is bad these days about Apple, it is our fault because we didn’t set expectations correctly. We must change our tone and be realistic. Otherwise, we are in for another big let down in the following months. And it will be our fault.

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JFMartin

“Why do we expect a “revolutionary” new phone every year or two? Is the 2012 BMW “revolutionary” compared with the 2011 versions? When’s the last time someone came out with a PC that was substantially different from its predecessors? It’s mostly been incremental upgrades, with maybe a big jump every 5-10 years or so (like the first iPhone came out). In what industry do we expect such quick innovation cycles?”

Found in TheVerge’s Apple Core Forum. Topic: Our hopes for iOS 7

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JFMartin