[marinosbern]

I have a very small tidbit to contribute to the list of inconsistencies. If you were at WWDC or watched the videos online, you will have noticed the same theme being hammered in again and again: "iOS7 puts the user's content first", "we have taken away all the chrome and UI distractions to allow the user to focus on the content" etc. If you have tried to adjust the volume while watching a video, however, you may have noticed that the volume popup has a very thick blur behind it, basically obscuring the content at the center of the video you are watching for 3 seconds or more, which in several occasions (e.g. news interviews where people's faces were completely blurred out) forced me to go back to the piece I missed.

What I find particularly unsettling about this is that the user doesn't even need any kind of visual feedback. The only feedback that truly matters is the one from his ears. Imagine if your TV obscured a big chunk right in the middle of the screen every time you adjusted the volume. I find this deeply distracting and in direct contrast with the iOS7 design philosophy portrayed by its designers.