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I used to get car sick as a kid. I haven't felt queasy from motion in over a decade. IOS 7 was the first thing that brought that feeling back. I think the problem isn't so much with motion as it is with the unnatural motions. You move the tablet, and the background only shifts a moment later. You rotate the tablet, and the rotation of the screen isn't smooth but jerky. IOS is very tactile. In IOS 6, I felt like I was moving things around. In IOS 7, the lag and jerkiness make it feel somehow wrong.

Either way, I suspect Apple will either want to release an update which gets rid of the lagginess and jerkiness, allow the user to disable animations, or face an ADA class-action lawsuit.

If they do plan to fix this, I wish they'd go against convention, and pre-announce it. I need to know whether I should replace the iPad with a Nexus 10 (something I've been considering regardless; I have a Nexus 4, which is wonderful; but hasn't been worth the $$$).

Somehow, the Surface, which has much the same feel as the IOS 7 in terms of being a little bit slow, laggy, and occasionally stalling out, doesn't suffer this fate.

(I have an iPad 3; and iPad 4 is twice as fast, so perhaps it doesn't suffer from this problem).

> I suspect Apple will either want to release an update which gets rid of the [crap] or face an ADA class-action lawsuit.

That would be terrific, and it wouldn't be the first time that regular users got a great boost from efforts to help the disabled. OS X sucked in all sorts of ways too, until they really got their Accessibility story dialed in.

To be one of those awesome guys who quotes himself, back in 2008 when a third-party utility finally was able to leverage the accessibility features to fix OS X's broken, decades-out-of-date window resizing, I said in a blog post[1]:

    > That seems to me to be an entirely legitimate use of
    > the Mac's Universal Access capabilities, albeit a 
    > little backwards: in this case, it's the computer that's
    > crippled, not the user.

Apple, of course, eventually fixed window-resizing (in 10.7 I believe), and I suspect that they will eventually fix some of these iOS 7 issues, too. But sooner would be better. You don't have to get physically sick to be really sick of seeing some of these too-long/jarring/useless animation effects.

[1]: http://masonmark.com/power-windows-for-your-mac

Something's wrong with your setup I think. I have an iPad mini with much less power than an iPad 3 and there is never any lag to speak of with the ios7 animations. Parallax works exactly as it would in real physics to my eyes. Maybe take it in to the apple store and say it's performing slower than it should?

The iPad 3 is pushing 4x the number of pixels as the iPad mini as it's retina. I'm not surprised by this at all.

Makes sense! Didn't think of that.

They've had an accessibility setting since release which allows you to reduce motion. It's a surprisingly big aesthetic win since the effects do nothing useful but distractingly fake.

You can already disable the effects; go into accessibility settings and select "Reduce Motion".

I think it's only for the parallax effect.

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