Lol ios7.
When will Apple fans realise that these tiny incremental changes onto an OS that hasn't changed since 2005 is just not right this day and age?
Allow me to respond to such an off the cuff, and perhaps uneducated broad response stating your sentiments about the OS. What would you consider non incremental and point to a few "revolutionary" features in other competing smart phone operating systems instead of making a broad comment about iOS? The previous offering from Apple, iOS 6 had a tremendous amount of features that you could point to as innovative or filling a previously identified gaps in the system, mainly in networked environments, but perhaps you expect every, release to be revolutionary? Fair enough, but if Apple is failing to do that, you must have clear examples of other smartphone OSes being revolutionary enough to garner your support.
I'm not an Apple "fan" on on the contrary, I think that what they do with hardware is close to price gouging, I also feel that Apple should be assembling their products here in the US, providing jobs to the country that's enabled their success. It would add less than twenty dollars a phone if it were assembled in the US, perhaps even less if it was manufactured and assembled in the US. I've been working in the telecommunications, IT, network design and cellular wireless IP data for about 25 years, so I hope that I've established that I'm not a "fan" but an industry professional.
Below is a list of what you call tiny incremental features which puzzles me in a way. Because on the one hand you're blaming the OS for not "changing" since 2005 yet there are a couple of hundred changes listed right here. That leads me to believe that you must be talking about UI changes... fair enough. But I must ask why you feel that something that was revolutionary when it came out in 2005, was heralded as being right, is intuitive enough that children under the age of 3 are able to use the UI without being shown how to use it, why it must be changed if it gotten right the first time? The App store was a revolutionary innovation, that fundamentally changed music, but not has fundamentally changed the way applications are distributed, even in the enterprise space. So once again, why does something that fundamentally work very well need to be changed in a revolutionary way like you seemingly demand?
Perhaps I'm wrong in interpreting your comment and you're not talking about the UI and you've referenced OS features; Today in the business environment, iOS has all but replaced the previous king of the hill, Blackberry. Since 2005 they've added functionality and security and API's that have enabled enterprises to completely replace what was once considered the most secure mobile device ever. The reason iOS is 90% of the enterprise today is because it has security and ease of integration functionality that are light years away from the fragmented offerings of Android, the defunct Symbian OSes, and the almost marginal Windows Mobile OS. Think about it outside of your comfort zone a bit. The penetration of iOS in the enterprise is 70 to 90% depending on the segment and businesses can't get enough of the solution because of these "incremental" security upgrades since 2005 that have in many cases allowed corporations to ditch giving certain employees laptops and just handing them an iPad.
iOS 7 changes.
App Store
A closer look at the App Store app in iOS 7
Add apps to a Wish List
You can search your previously purchased apps by name
Tap the screenshot preview of an app to get a full screen screenshots of it
Apps can be updated automatically in the background (can be turned off in Settings > iTunes & App Stores)
You can see popular apps “Near Me”
You are now asked if you want to download an app if it is over 59MB
New icon animations when downloading an app
You can now use apps while they’re updating
Camera
Swipe left and right to choose video recording, photo, square format, or panorama
Square photo format
Shoot photos with live filters
Edit your photos with filters
You can zoom in while taking a video
Take HDR photos on iPad
Burst mode
Clock
The app icon now shows the current time
When setting a timer, remaining time appears on Lock screen
When alarm is snoozed, remaining snooze time appears on Lock screen
In World Clock, tap on a clock to display digital clocks
Compass
The app has a new calibration system
The app now features a level as well
Contacts
When editing a contact, you can now add date, social profile, or instant message handle
A contact now shows icons for Messages, Phone, FaceTime, FaceTime audio or email
Control Center
iOS 7 introduces Control Center
Control Center works in landscape mode
FaceTime
FaceTime now has its own icon
You can block callers
You can make FaceTime audio calls (without video)
Lock screen
A brand new Lock screen
You can pull down to bring Notification Center
You can swipe up to bring Control Center
Charging icon is now showing up for a few seconds when first plugged in
You can Slide to Unlock from everywhere on the Lock screen
Lock screen fades in as you hit the Home or Power buttons
Lock screen fades out after 10 seconds of inactivity
Mail
Smart “send from” feature
You can “Mark All” emails as Read, Unread, or Flag
New smart mailboxes
Improved Mail search
Maps
Maps app has a night view
Turn-by-turn walking directions
Maps bookmark syncing
Night mode
Pin in Maps app now shows estimated driving time to location
Messages
A closer look at Messages in iOS 7
See Messages timestamps by swiping left
Messages app now opens to conversation list instead of opening to unread message
Double tap and hold a message to copy, delete, clear all, or select to forward
“Contact” button at the top of a conversation now makes it easy to access additional contact info
Long MMS support
You can block senders
Multitasking
Flick an app screenshot up to close
Flick up up to three apps to close
Multitasking works in landscape mode
Music
Complete app redesign
iTunes Radio
Landscape mode now shows a tile view of your albums (no more cover flow)
Better Lock screen controls
You can skip up to 6 songs on iTunes Radio before hearing an ad
Tap on album cover in Music app to rate a song
Notification Center
A new Notification Center
Context-based alerts
Notification Center works in landscape mode
NC now has 3 tabs: Today, All, and Missed
You can now swipe between Today – All – Missed views in Notification Center
Notification sync
Passbook
You can share passes via email or Messages
Scan to acquire Passbook passes
Photos
The Map view is gone
Screenshots aren’t pushed to Photo Stream anymore
Photo collections
You can now see Shared Streams activity
A new tab for Videos has been added
Phone
You can block callers
Photos are showed for your Favorites
On the keypad, pressing “Call” will call the last dialed number
Reminders
Search bar in Reminders
A new card-like view
Safari
An all new mobile Safari
Full-screen interface
Unified smart search field
New layout for your Favorites
New tab view
Swipe tabs to the left to close them
Parental controls
Swipe left and right to navigate back and forward
Easy access to Private Browsing mode
Saved Passwords for Safari now ask you want to setup an on-device password
Settings
In Cellular, you can see cellular data used per app
In General > Text Size, you can change text size of apps that support the feature
Siri
Bing is Siri’s default search engine
New male and female voices
Siri can show you pictures (“Siri, show me pictures of a guitar”)
Siri wants you to stay alive
Siri learned how to pronounce names
New Siri mic sound
Other
AirDrop for iOS
New parallax effect
Activation Lock is a new security feature
Support for third party game controlers
Wi-Fi Hotspot 2.0
Redeem iTunes gift card using the camera
Anti-cheating measures in Game Center
A closer look at the iOS 7 smarter keyboard
Smarter auto-correct
A closer look at Frequent Locations
Control your iOS device with head movements
New iOS 7 wallpapers
New ringtones and alert sounds
You can now download additional dictionaries (select a word and tap “define” then “manage”)
Apple logo on boot up is completely flat
Swipe down from top of Home screen to bring up Spotlight search
You can put Newsstand in a folder
A grid-like design appears when waiting for an app to download
Apps can request access to the microphone
You now have dynamic wallpapers
Reading List icon is a tribute to Steve (see glasses)
View PDF annotations
Inclinometer
Per app VPN
New charge sound when you plug your iPhone in
Now, for my impression, this update actually "borrows" some of the swipe functions from Android
and is very feature incremental, but it does offer the enterprise one very key, the app level VPN. It's a big deal for the enterprise and specifically for mobile device management solution.
- By darwin dali