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THE POISON APPLE
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I believe both aesthetics and functionality are important.
I am both right and left-brained. iOS 7 is really the worst of both worlds.
I hate iOS 7 and flat design. We live in a 3-D world, not Flatland. How many people wear digital watches? Analog faces look so much classier. This is something engineers, Android users, and left-brained people will never be able to figure-out.
iOS 7 reminds me of bubblegum pop music. It looks like it was designed for clowns. It looks like it was designed by a 7 year-old girl in MS Paint for 7 year-old girls. It evokes Prince's Raspberry Beret. Or something a flaming queen would proudly carry.
There is nothing "executive" or classy about the new iOS 7 interface.
It is juvenile, sophomoric, and cheap-looking. It looks like a clown costume, not elegant or black tie.
Look at the old camera icon versus the new camera icon.
The letters and characters are hard to read.
I think Steve Jobs was brighter than Johnathon Ives.
I like functioning in an environment that I am comfortable in, one that resembles a real world environment, not a totally abstract environment.
Aside from everything iOS 7 just plain ugly. Some icons have color, many are plain white, still others are grey. It is a hodge podge of incongruent, contrasting, garish, clashing designs with no common denominator.
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