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Apple Shows Signs a Major Interface Overhaul Is Coming

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23 pointsLibertatea9 comments

This article seems exceedingly hollow. "Ive's is coming, so change is coming." is something we've all pretty much assumed since the say forstall left.

Don't forget - they're hiring software engineers! This is usually an indication on an imminent overhaul.

Sometimes I wish there was a vote to indicate that article is completely devoid of substance and is just regurgitating facts we all knows (iOS is 5 years old!) to come up with an exciting headline.

I think thats called a downvote, you get them at 500 karma.

You can't use down-votes on articles, only on comments, and not on comments which are replies to your own articles (presumably to kill off the "OH-EM-GEE, that guy disagrees with me, I need to down-vote him in to oblivion!" mindset.)

Not for articles, though. The only way to exert a negative influence on an article is to become an editor, which apparently requires meeting pg personally and participating in a secret ritual, after which your identity can never be revealed.

I think this article deserves to be flagged because it looks like it's written just for pageviews. Wired is getting worse with each day!

    “Updates to major portions of the user interfaces aren’t easy;
    they don’t want to break what is effective today nor can they break
    how their developers integrate with the platform,” Blau said

Mr Blau appears to be blissfully unaware of OS X .*Lion.

I don't see really how skeuomorphism is a bad thing. If you make things too alien in any sort of UI, it can throw off many users, sometimes even advanced ones.

The thing that I don't believe many people realize is that skeuomorphism has been used with regards to UI design since the earliest days of computing. We call electronic messages "e-mail". We call our contact list an "address book". We call the waste file folder a "trash bin".

Skeuomorphism is everywhere, and I don't think there needs to be such a vocal and violent uprising over it. Was it overdone in iOS? Yes, it was. Does skeuomorphism need to be completely taken out? Of course not, because then it would be unfamiliar to new users and current users alike. Just look what has happened with Windows 8.

Lose the leather in FMF, get rid of the tacky chrome in the Music app, but leave everything more or less the same. Skeuomorphism is not a bad thing when used in moderation.

I don't think anyone would argue that Skeuomorphism in moderation is a bad thing, but the same is true for essentially everything. Its finding that moderation that takes skill.

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=apple+skeuomorp...

this is not that moderation, though.

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