Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 WWDC 2013 5 days conference starts tonight at 6pm UK time http://www.macworld.co.uk/digitallifestyle/news/?newsid=3447020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs2000 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Looking forward too it *runs away before im chased by a hungry Android mob* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Wow, that's slipped under the radar. I guess most tech folks are more excited by E3 and the two big conferences today than yet-another refresh of stuff from Apple. And that's coming from a true iWhore. iOS7 really needs to be something special, as that's Apple's true strength and always has been. If it's more of the same, or a few tweaks, then I can't help but wonder if people are going to really start jumping ship. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Interested to see if they give the MacPro a look in, it's due a refresh. I know it's developer conf not hardware, but here's hoping. Always keen to hear what's coming on desktop too, I'm pretty pleased with Mountain Lion so hopefully the next refresh will be enhancements rather than just updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tez162003 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I'm an Apple whore (Ipad, Iphone etc) but when my contract is up for renewal I am moving away from apple, I am just so bored of it, its been the same for far too long, I have looked at the same home screen for 5 years now. IOS 7 is make or break for the Iphone IMO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 iDon't believe iM saying this, but iFeel the same, bored as hell of iOS, although it works perfect! We need something revolutionary tonight or iM converting to Android / S4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 If only Android stuff didn't have the input lag, I have to say I'd be tempted as well. iOS7 has to be a radical change, as the market is now demanding it. The fact that even us Apple diehards are saying it is just reinforcing how important this is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) OMG, OMG An "Apple Events" channel was quietly added to users' Apple TV main screens on Monday, revealing the company plans to allow members of the public to view a live stream of today's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. Edit: WILL ALSO BE LIVE HERE: http://www.apple.com...ents/june-2013/ Edited June 10, 2013 by octet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Are you sure iOS7 is going to be released today? Isn't it just an announcement? The reason I say that is that my company develop apps for iOS as we haven't got the developer version yet which is usually released 2-3 months in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 It's just announcement and the launch of the developer preview. Few betas to follow, most likely available for everyone in 2-3 months. May October with the new iPhone? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) New MacPro leaked: Mac Pro with Dual GPU and Thunderbolt 2 gigantic graphics power and file transfers in a zip Edited June 10, 2013 by octet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I know what you mean about it being the same for ages (iOS), but it works really well! There's no need for change for change sake, but I'd like some new stuff. I believe Ive is now the GUI man so I'd expect a pretty new look all round and no more leather bound journals or notes that look like legal pads, calendar etc (amongst other things). Couldn't be bothered to change eco systems now anyway unless some incredibly futuristic new thing came along! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350 Russ Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I'm hoping we're in for a surprise regarding the new iOS as I think that Jony Ive has taken charge of iOS, he has a good hit rate of products that are popular so hopefully he can bring it up to date a bit, still can't knock how it works though, hated android when I had one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cs2000 Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Yep, iOS can be boring, but I STILL don't want to use Andriod. Im not bothered about widgets everywhere, id rather just have a good OS that allows me to get $h1t done, which iOS does. Small things are due a refresh, one being the look, which its getting. And there are some cool features being discusses such as location aware locking, such as if you are connected to a WiFi network you have previously used such as your home one, it could disable your PIN code lock since you're in a safe environment. But mostly, iOS has everything that's necessary already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 Apple is expected to debut a revamped iOS on Monday, featuring a "flatter" design that, if not done properly, could be a step backward in usability, a pair of user interface (UI) experts said. "Totally flat design, like in Windows 8, is a terrible usability mistake because it removes the users' ability to see at a glance where they can click," said Jakob Nielsen, a usability guru with nearly 80 U.S. patents to his name. Nielsen, co-founder of the consulting firm Nielsen Norman Group, was formerly a top-level engineer with Sun Microsystems and has a Ph.D in human-computer interaction. "The actionable elements on the screen have to be called out in some way." Although designers may argue over what "flat" means, the consensus seems to be a reduction in the three-dimensionality of icons and other actionable elements -- buttons, for example -- that make them stand out from the background. Instead, colors, textures and typography are used to draw attention. In the most radical cases -- Nielsen's example of Windows 8 and its "Modern," formerly called "Metro" UI -- icons, the small pictograms representing programs, functions or documents, are ditched, replaced by colored blocks or tiles with typographical labels. Those who anticipate a flatter iOS 7 have based their forecasts on the fact that Jony Ive, who is noted for his sleek, minimalist product designs of the iPhone and iPad, was put in charge last fall of "Human Interface," the Apple team responsible for software UI and user experience (UX) design and development, after Scott Forstall, former head of iOS software, was ousted. Pundits also expect iOS 7 to lose most if not all of its "skeuomorphism," a label for design that, in software, adds elements that make a program resemble a physical object. Famous examples in iOS and OS X include Calendar, which looks like a paper desk calendar, iBooks and its wood-grained shelves, and Notes, which mimics a lined notepad. Ives has reportedly expressed his distaste for such ornamentation. But a "flat" UI isn't inherently better than what replaces it, argued Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini, also a co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group. "The long and short of it is that [flat design] is simply a design aesthetic and/or ideology," Tognazzini said, calling flat a fad, not necessarily a bad one, that inevitably will be replaced. "I have nothing against either skeuomorphic design done right nor flat design done right. It was weird when they were blended together, and Apple had managed to do both of them wrong." Tognazzini spent 14 years at Apple, where he founded the Human Interface Group -- the team that Ive now leads -- and acted as the Cupertino, Calif., company's evangelist for Human Interface. He was also the lead designer at WebMD, worked at Sun, and has 56 patents, either issued or pending. "I think we will soon see which of those last two [iOS 7] is, [an aesthetic or an ideology]: Apple has been seriously decreasing the usability of the Mac by 'simplifying' the visual design through stripping out functionality," said Tognazzini. "The same thing has been happening on the iPad, but there it manifests as a stubborn refusal to increase the functionality." He hoped that when the new mobile operating system is revealed Monday it will show that Ive chose a middle-of-the-road approach. "If Ive starts making everything monochrome, the current fad, that is going to seriously impact usability," Tognazzini said. "If it's just simply 'flat,' but he allows his designers to communicate through all human perceptual channels, including color, then he could end up doing a good thing." Pundits have assumed that Ive will overhaul the iOS UI and UX because, first, iOS looks and operates much the same as it did at its 2007 debut. Secondly, the thinking goes, Apple has to do something to iOS to make it "new" or "fresh" or "modern" as it faces unprecedented competition -- in units sold globally -- from a slew of handset manufacturers that rely on Google's Android. Nielsen and Tognazzini have a different perspective, that change for change's sake can be damaging if the new isn't more usable. And both were critical of Apple's operating system usability of late. "Apple's skeuomorphism style of recent years is overkill ... and the overly ornate design ends up distracting users from the functionality," said Nielsen. "So a scaled-back, simpler design will be better, as long as it's not scaled back so far that they remove the cues that users depend on to find out what they can do on each screen." Tognazzini, meanwhile, hoped that Apple tested the usability of its UI and UX, a practice he'd found wanting. "Overall, what's missing at Apple is that either it does zero [usability] testing, or if they do, that no one is listening to the results. It's one thing to make things simple ... that's wonderful. But it's not if they pretend things are simple because they're just hiding the complexity." Citing several examples -- including the disappearing scroll bars in Safari on both OS X and iOS -- Tognazzini pointed out UI/UX failures where "pretend" simplicity had been achieved by hiding elements. He attributed the practice to Apple's desire to show how easy its operating systems were to use during the 15 minutes customers evaluated them in the store. "Steve [Jobs]'s whole focus was to sell computers," Tognazzini said. "When he put the big apple on the cover of the Mac, but turned it so that to the user it's upside down, but from across the room, or on television, it's right-side up, that was absolutely symbolic of the flip [to stress sales by unnecessarily hiding complexity]." While iOS 7 won't be put to the test until customers have it in hand -- and that won't be until this fall when Apple launches a new iPhone -- Tognazzini hoped to see a revamp that stressed usability as much as design. "I think the highest grade I'd give Apple [on UI and UX] would be a "B" at this point," Tognazzini said. "There are too many loose ends, and decisions made for that 15 minutes [in the store] when those decisions carry over into the next 10 years." There's a lot on the line with iOS, which powers the two largest money makers in Apple's stable, the iPhone and iPad. The changes, if as widespread as rumored, will be the most significant made to Apple's products under the watch of CEO Tim Cook. A misstep could damage the iPhone's reputation and have long-term ramifications, just as the ones made by Microsoft with Windows 8 echo eight months after its debut. But Tognazzini was optimistic. "The potential [at Apple] is there for great work ... they have the best people in the world [in design]. I think Apple can be a lot more creative [in UI/UX] than before, when everything had to go through Steve [Jobs]," said Tognazzini, explaining the past failures to that bottleneck. Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9239930/_Usability_not_flat_design_key_to_Monday_s_iOS_refresh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 2 minutes to start. My predictions: SAME OLD CLASSIC BULLSHIT from Apple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350 Russ Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Hope there a bit off the mark with that interview, windows 8 looks crap imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 OS X Mavericks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtbiscuit Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Apple does a very good job of making products that work and are user friendly. My wife is an iWhore like ekona. And I have to say I can't fault the system. I tried apple and didn't like it. Found it very restrictive, no ability to really personalise. Been on android for 5 years now. And it is good. But next year I hope to move to windows phone. Not because its better but because it will be the same as my surface tablet and my win 8 desktop. I'm institutionalised. But taking a leaf out of apples book and having everything on the same os makes sense. I'm not a heavy app user, and I think next year I'll down grade my tech as I don't use my mobile as much as 5 years ago. Apples inability to change away from what it knows is looking like its the company bonus, but now also its choke point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 Love the new iOS. I'm staying with Apple Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
350 Russ Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 Woah! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I haven't watched it, have they pulled a proverbial rabbit from a hat then? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian@TORQEN Posted June 10, 2013 Author Share Posted June 10, 2013 (edited) LOVE IT!!! G, watch it here: http://www.apple.com...ents/june-2013/ They are demoing it now. Jailbreak rendered useless for me... Edited June 10, 2013 by octet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny the mod Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 im having a stella !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stutopia Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 I quite like the new look, hope the responsiveness is retained with the new wizzyness, a battery life boost now seems unlikely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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