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Old 06-12-2013, 02:14 PM   #16
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Over on CNET today, I see headlines:

"Apple's iOS 7 is almost unrecognizable"

"Get all the details about the new mobile OS
-- a beta of which is going out today. iOS 7
is "the biggest change to iOS since the
iPhone," Apple's CEO says"

How will the mobileread ebook readers be affected?

Do we care?
I would expect the page animations to be gone, to fit with this skeuomorphism purge but, other than that, should make no difference.
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Old 06-12-2013, 02:14 PM   #17
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Well, i wish i had the ipad ios7 but i dont. and ibooks on iphone looks and behaves the same. colour me disappointed.
In plain English, iBooks on iOS 7 on an iPhone is as poor as it's ever been and nothing was done to fix it.
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Old 06-12-2013, 02:16 PM   #18
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What's broken in Stanza on iOS 6? It runs fine for me as a reader. Let's me download books from box.com. Please share what is broken.

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The rendering engine for one. It's always been buggy and it's never been fixed.
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Old 06-12-2013, 04:06 PM   #19
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In plain English, iBooks on iOS 7 on an iPhone is as poor as it's ever been and nothing was done to fix it.
I place iBooks in the same bucket as Kindle, Sony, and Nook apps for iOS, or Android, or BB, or whatever mobile OS floats your boat. Talk about minimalist! These apps all share at least one thing in common--almost no formatting options. It amazes me that after all these years none of those companies understand why we want small or no margins on a tiny screen. My guess is that their decision makers never read, at least not on small screened devices.
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Old 06-12-2013, 05:45 PM   #20
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What's broken in Stanza on iOS 6? It runs fine for me as a reader. Let's me download books from box.com. Please share what is broken.
You've obviously never tried to customize the layout among other things.
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Old 06-12-2013, 06:28 PM   #21
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In plain English, iBooks on iOS 7 on an iPhone is as poor as it's ever been and nothing was done to fix it.
Because you don't have an updated version of iBooks?
iBooks is not part of the OS, so why would you expect it to have changed?
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Old 06-12-2013, 10:51 PM   #22
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The rendering engine for one. It's always been buggy and it's never been fixed.
Huh. I've never heard that. Care to detail?
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None of the non-stock Apple apps (such a trailers, ibooks, Apple store, etc.) have been updated yet because iOS 7 hasn't been released. Given that they removed things like wooden shelving from the OS X version of iBooks and that they purged the new iOS of almost all skeuomorphic elements, I'd be very surprised if iBooks doesn't get a refresh in the fall.
Post 12 (right above your post 13) robertc88, said there was a Beta.
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You've obviously never tried to customize the layout among other things.
You're right. I haven't. I download my books from box and read them. It works.
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Old 06-13-2013, 02:38 AM   #25
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Because you don't have an updated version of iBooks?
iBooks is not part of the OS, so why would you expect it to have changed?
Oh gawd, I'm silly,. When I spoke of it I had completely forgotten about that minor detail. D'uh.

IN the meantime I have downgraded to 6.1.3 on my 4S. I think the OS is probably well suited to the longer screen of the 5 and whatever comes next but for me, theres way too much screen real estate wasting whitespace in some of the built in apps. I also hate the flat icons and the true multitasking which, if you dont remember to kill the apps, eats your battery. After years of having apps killed when you hit the home button and then later sleep when you hit the home button, its really easy to forget thats all over now.
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Post 12 (right above your post 13) robertc88, said there was a Beta.
There is a developer beta of the new OS, of which iBooks is not a part. What are you even doing in this thread?
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What, is this a "by invitation only" thread?
When I started this thread, I should have put up a warning sign by the cages not to get too close. I don't have insurance for bitten hands.
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What, is this a "by invitation only" thread?
Only those who pass a basic reading comprehension exam are encouraged to participate.
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