Do you feel iOS is (looking) dated?

[bwana]

If you're jailbroken, you can have this

Why

 

[mercurial]

Why

Variety is the spice of life.

 

[bwana]

Variety is the spice of life.

My phone is not my life.

 

[mercurial]

My phone is not my life.

That's not the point, is it?

 

[cerebus]

Fair enough. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-new-android.html

Yep that's quite accurate.

Funnily enough that interface seems to work quite well from the demo video.
[video=youtube;UggYGThmFEo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UggYGThmFEo[/video]

 

[sand_man]

Pretty cool!!

 

[Bryn]

If you're jailbroken, you can have this
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Just when you thought the iOS UI couldn't get much worse.

 

[PostmanPot]

Yep that's quite accurate.


Funnily enough that interface seems to work quite well from the demo video.

That responsiveness on a 5. With a 1.3GHz dual core and 1GB RAM.

 

[sand_man]

I think the icon layout is pretty tired. The least apple could do is introduce themed icon packs. But beyond the home screen iOS is still relevant.

http://www.redmondpie.com/ios-8-beta-vs-android-l-side-by-side-visual-comparison-screenshots/

 

[CoatiMundi15]

That's a perfect example of a dead interface. It's a static screenshot of a homescreen that looks like it should be all snazzy and functional, but actually is just an app launcher with no animations or real purpose other than to make a nice looking homescreen. The iOS interface is defined by the quality of its smoothness, intuitiveness and attractive animation. None of that is evident in looking at that shot, but it's what makes a UI feel living rather than inert and fake.

What cerebus said.

 

[CoatiMundi15]

I think IOS is now basically playing catchup IMO

iPhone 6 and 6+ def are in some ways

 

[Way69]

I think iOS and Android are at opposite extremes and they're both wrong. iOS doesn't show any contextual information on its icons apart from a basic badge. Android has widgets but they just end up wasting space and drain battery.

Windows Phone has by far the smartest way of displaying information and optimally using the available space.

 

[Ockie]

I think iOS and Android are at opposite extremes and they're both wrong. iOS doesn't show any contextual information on its icons apart from a basic badge. Android has widgets but they just end up wasting space and drain battery.

Windows Phone has by far the smartest way of displaying information and optimally using the available space.

By filling your entire screen with massive tiles?
meh.

 

[cerebus]

I think iOS and Android are at opposite extremes and they're both wrong. iOS doesn't show any contextual information on its icons apart from a basic badge. Android has widgets but they just end up wasting space and drain battery.

I'm not currently getting any contextual information from my phone's homescreen apart from a music control. The lockscreen does the contextual stuff just fine.

 

[Way69]

By filling your entire screen with massive tiles?
meh.

There are 3 sizes for tiles, so you can make unimportant tiles smaller. You can nest tiles into folders (like IOS) and then the parent tile will show content\ notifications from the child tiles.


For instance, my vodacom tile shows my account balance and data bundle balance...


So far its the most elegant approach I've seen.

For the record, I don't think IOS looks dated (not since IOS 7). I think people get bored with the interface because there is very little one can do to change the appearance.

That's why people tend to move to another platform, they just want something different (not necessarily better).