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by IanChiles
4650 days ago
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My biggest problem with iOS 7 is Apple's loss of their attention to detail - several of the animations are broken (multitasking gestures on an iPad especially), and the newer typography turns out to be inconsistent throughout. It was incredibly impressive last night, but the more I use it, the more I dislike it. |
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I was trying to put my finger on just what it was that bothered me, and your observation about animations triggered it...
I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday on my 3rd Generation "retina" iPad and a few things caught me by surprise out of the gate. The settings app is much more sluggish in this revision. I was poking around between options and I found myself re-tapping buttons because the screens weren't coming up fast enough.
That was the biggest problem I had. Apple iOS products that I've owned in the past always had snappy performance for things that require instant feedback. Scrolling was smooth and instant, tapping buttons for menus that didn't require data to be sent/received rendered an immediate response (or very nearly so). It worked as you would expect something to work in the non-digital world (I pull open a drawer, the drawer opens at the speed I pull it). All throughout the settings app I found myself having to tap three times on some switches. For example, enabling my cellular radio, I tapped the switch and it did nothing. A half-second later I tapped it, figuring I wasn't precise enough the first time only to find that my finger went down the instant the "switch" gave me feedback that it was on, requiring a third tap to re-enable it. It's nitpicky as heck to complain about a half-second delay (and a bit of a testimony to the company's famed agonizing over every part of the user experience) since that sort of delay is "normal" when I interact with my Android tablet or phone, but Apple trained me when using their devices to expect instant feedback for actions (even if it's just an icon change to indicate that input was recognized but something else needed to finish before a menu option changed). There were several other interactions I had with iOS 7 and the built-in apps that were far more nitpicking than that, but overall the biggest difference I've noticed is that UI "lag" has been introduced in this version.
I'm betting some of this has to do with my 3rd generation iPad. I have seen benchmarks indicating that animations/frame rates are woefully worse than the iPad 2 with its lower resolution screen or the generation after mine with its faster processor. It's not going to trigger me to upgrade or change devices because all-in-all I'm quite satisfied with it even if I have to tweak my expectations.