Apple iOS 7: Android copycat '- ZDNet.nl

Summary: Some find great iOS 7. Some find it but nothing. I think it’s not just a copycat of Android, but almost every other current mobile operating system.

Let’s start with the outside of iOS7. To me it feels as if it has taken to create. Flat display with large fonts Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 as inspiration And especially do not ask me why true that Apple has copied. Fortunately, it is not added those irritating tiles WP8.

Bad copied

Or does the interface of iOS 7 maybe more the appearance of BlackBerry 10, with its two-dimensional icons on the wallpaper seem to be stuck? In both cases, copying is not the sincerest form of vlijerij. It shows little respect for the visual design of iOS Scott Forstall been fired.

If we zoom in a little further, I see that Apple has used for the lock screen the copier. With its large digital clock, date and a release switch on the bottom looks suspiciously like that of Android. The lock screen of iOS 7 can now better handle notifications.

And where have I seen that before? Right, Android.

are finding this copying in the interface of iOS 7 other examples: the color scheme of the calendar, the Web panels Safari so from Chrome seem to have run away, the remarkable similarities between iTunes Radio and Google Music

And then there’s the use of cards to present information. But that view we can attribute to the Palm WebOS died miserably.

I find it amusing to see that Apple has finally introduced to delete emails or archive to be built-in email application. sweeping movements And although Google committed a mistake by changing the default action to delete archive, is it still suspiciously familiar.

Catching up
If we light up the interface and look at the underlying technologies, I see that Apple has made a catch for basic techniques as automatic updates for apps and multitasking.

Finally

has iOS by the apps you use most often are the ones that need more attention. processor That’s fine, but Windows Phone and Android had last year al And to think that iOS 7 will not appear on the scene.

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Let there be no doubt: Apple iOS is now officially overtaken by events, both in technology and in the market. Apple fans love their iPhones, but are opposite for each unit sold four sold Androids.

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Open Bugs
I would have preferred that Apple had spent fixing bugs in iOS, rather than a radical renovation of the exterior without a good reason to have more attention . I mean iOS 6 has still problems with Wifi and battery life. There is nothing glamorous on repairs, but it does produce a better product for the users.

As my colleague Wayne Rash put it: “I was very disappointed in the announcement of iOS 7. I really was hoping to see something new and not just new to Apple. “It had been so beautiful, is not it?