iOS 7

[HaloCory22]

WWDC is today and the new and improved iOS 7 makes its debut today at 10 am PT. The event will stream live on all iOS devices and through the Apple website. Looking forward to this.

 

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/june-2013/

 

[nate]

What happens in this meeting determines whether or not I get a HTC One.

[HaloCory22]

Pretty much same with me, Nate. Time for Apple to put up or shut up.

[Lhalo]

New Mac OS is called Mavericks. I guess they're going to start naming them after places in CA.

[nate]

The stuff that Apple does to integrate all of their products is always awesome.  The multiple display setups are really sweet and seamless.

[HaloCory22]

New Mac OS is called Mavericks. I guess they're going to start naming them after places in CA.

or Top Gun characters.

[Lhalo]

or Top Gun characters.

If that were the case they would have called it Cougar to make the transition seamless.

[nate]

No Widgets.

[HaloCory22]

Pretty much ripped everything from the jailbreak community. Every "new" feature they've shown has been on my 4S for 2 years now.

[HaloCory22]

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/06/10/apple-introduces-ios-7/

[St1ck]

I take it went well? 

[nate]

Automatic updating apps!  F'n finally.

[nate]

There is the iRadio everyone has been expecting.

[Lhalo]

I wish iTunes Radio would have been a subscription instead of a pay as you go model. It's just Pandora with an option to buy the song directly from iTunes. BFD.

[RallyMo]

It looks very nice.

[nate]

Installing iOS 7 on my 4S right now.  Will let you know how it is.

[Aaronkv]

Where are you downloading iOS 7? Thought it wasn't available until Fall.

[nate]

Beta version.  I have a friend with a developer account.

[HaloCory22]

Keep us updated dude. 

[mrwicked]

Pretty much ripped everything from the jailbreak community. Every "new" feature they've shown has been on my 4S for 2 years now.

 

this is probably a legit claim but also remember there is a difference between jailbroken features written by individuals with little to no quality assurance in place.

and native features written by the company which has a multi-billion dollar qa process in place.

 

i think the update is slick, but maybe not earth shattering (but nothing is at this point in mobile OS).

skeumorphism is stupid, glad to see it got ripped out.

[mrwicked]

little writeup on the new features.

 

http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/10/the-best-features-of-ios-7/

[nate]

Took some screen shots.  I have a 4S.  One thing that is REALLY nice is that there doesn't appear to be a limit to how many apps you can have in a group anymore, it just creates a new page within that group that you can scroll through.

 

 

From the lock screen:

Restoring all apps:

Notice the tab at the bottom, have 3 more apps in this group:

[HaloCory22]

Good news about the folders not being limited anymore. That always bugged me with stock iOS. Apple is definitely getting with the times. Nothing breathtaking but its a start. The icons look so cheap to me. Looks like a kid with amateur photoshop skills drew those up. Hope Apple polishes them up a bit before the release. I actually like the way the texting looks. Simple and to the point.

[nate]

The icons aren't bad.  There are a couple of them that are pretty pastel which I could do without, especially since the rest of the UI is very simple light colors.  None of it bothers me though.  Overall the OS is much faster and better with battery than iOS 6, which is unusual for iOS betas, they are usually clunky and guzzle battery.

[Aaronkv]

Can't wait to try it and see how it runs on the 5. Looks great to me, will be a nice change.