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Faterson · 11-07-2013, 09:22 PM

I insist it's no exaggeration. The page full with technical background specs means nothing to the end user. Really, I can only see 3 new features in iOS 7 versus iOS 6 (please remind me of more if there are any):

Control Center (badly implemented, because 100% non-configurable)
new multi-tasking switcher (but still no app-switching gesture on the iPhone)
spotlight search moved from left-most screen to top of screen (meh)

I don't count AirDrop, because that's only available to owners of (relatively) new hardware.

So, to me, the summary is "next to no new features". The main difference between iOS 6 and iOS 7 is cosmetics: what was previously nice to look at, is now hideous. Instead of improving iOS's functionality and introducing at least some confugurability/flexibility to it, Apple just dumped tons of ugly make-up on the old system. Fail!

11-07-2013, 09:22 PM	#23
Faterson pokrývač škridiel Posts: 1,525 Karma: 3300000 Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: Bratislava, Slovakia Device: 3iPad, SamsungNote & Tabs, 2OnyxBoox, Huawei 8″, PocketBook	I insist it's no exaggeration. The page full with technical background specs means nothing to the end user. Really, I can only see 3 new features in iOS 7 versus iOS 6 (please remind me of more if there are any): Control Center (badly implemented, because 100% non-configurable) new multi-tasking switcher (but still no app-switching gesture on the iPhone) spotlight search moved from left-most screen to top of screen (meh) I don't count AirDrop, because that's only available to owners of (relatively) new hardware. So, to me, the summary is "next to no new features". The main difference between iOS 6 and iOS 7 is cosmetics: what was previously nice to look at, is now hideous. Instead of improving iOS's functionality and introducing at least some confugurability/flexibility to it, Apple just dumped tons of ugly make-up on the old system. Fail! Last edited by Faterson; 11-07-2013 at 09:25 PM.