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Redesign or No?

  • Full redesign

    Votes: 32 25.0%
  • Added Features

    Votes: 61 47.7%
  • Just Improvements

    Votes: 35 27.3%

  • Total voters
    128

Tycho24

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Never say never, they do on the mac. Why wouldnt that be possible on the iPhone?

Are you serious??

It looks like from your avatar pic that you're old enough to know a teeny bit about computing history.... but here is a refresher:
The modern day PC operating system is based on a lot of legacy code. The modern day mobile OS is.... well, modern. iOS is surely more secure than, for example, an OS like Windows. This is largely due to a VERY tightly controlled app experience. It is FAR easier to get malicious code to run on a desktop OS than on a mobile OS. You have both of the major OSs trying to change this. Microsoft made their Windows Store... Apple made their Mac Store... there are options for "only allow apps from the App Store" on both. This is in an effort to make desktop computing more like mobile computing. That is to say; less worrisome as you install apps. Not having to carefully look at EULAs to ensure you're not accidentally installing some garbage search toolbars or faux antivirus ransomware as you install the real app, etc.
This is a move FORWARD.
If you've never experienced a buggy computer riddled with spyware & junk, I encourage you to try.... well, pretty much ANY personal computer not owned by a "power user". They'll likely have "search conduit" or some other insidious malware installed. Even the uninstallers are worded crazily & if you're not careful, you're installing even MORE spyware junk, even as you remove the last! Surely you see this as bad, yeah?? Are you really thinking that since this isn't currently an issue on mobile, they are likely about to try to make it a problem on mobile?? Even as they are moving desktop computers AWAY from this experience & legacy way of doing things, you think they're eager to simultaneously move mobile computing in the OPPOSITE direction, back to how they did things on desktop for the first 40 years??
Lol... someone needs to put on their thinking cap.
 
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iFanaddic

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Sep 24, 2008
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Are you serious??

It looks like from your avatar pic that you're old enough to know a teeny bit about computing history.... but here is a refresher:
The modern day PC operating system is based on a lot of legacy code. The modern day mobile OS is.... well, modern. iOS is surely more secure than, for example, an OS like Windows. This is largely due to a VERY tightly controlled app experience. It is FAR easier to get malicious code to run on a desktop OS than on a mobile OS. You have both of the major OSs trying to change this. Microsoft made their Windows Store... Apple made their Mac Store... there are options for "only allow apps from the App Store" on both. This is in an effort to make desktop computing more like mobile computing. That is to say; less worrisome as you install apps. Not having to carefully look at EULAs to ensure you're not accidentally installing some garbage search toolbars or faux antivirus ransomware as you install the real app, etc.
This is a move FORWARD.
If you've never experienced a buggy computer riddled with spyware & junk, I encourage you to try.... well, pretty much ANY personal computer not owned by a "power user". They'll likely have "search conduit" or some other insidious malware installed. Even the uninstallers are worded crazily & if you're not careful, you're installing even MORE spyware junk, even as you remove the last! Surely you see this as bad, yeah?? Are you really thinking that since this isn't currently an issue on mobile, they are likely about to try to make it a problem on mobile?? Even as they are moving desktop computers AWAY from this experience & legacy way of doing things, you think they're eager to simultaneously move mobile computing in the OPPOSITE direction, back to how they did things on desktop for the first 40 years??
Lol... someone needs to put on their thinking cap.
 

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Tycho24

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I guess we'll see when the imaginary/impossible product you're unrealistically fantasizing about doesn't show up & computer systems keep progressing forward in a rational manner, that completely makes logical sense, & doesn't randomly adhere to your wacky pipe dreams.
Lol, try a few computer classes at your local college. You may actually learn something (other than how to post off-topic memes, in an effort to save face when you're called out for being wrong)
Best of luck!!! We all had to start somewhere. :)
 

Tycho24

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Lol.
Umm..... too bad you didn't oh, I don't know... READ that article before posting it.
I'll rehash it for you:
1)Windows phones DON'T run Windows 10, full version
2)using a keyboard, mouse, & monitor you WILL be able to scale up mobile apps.. coded for your phone & running on your phone- and display them on the monitor (you know, like you can currently... with ease, on both Android & iOS)
It is genuinely embarrassing if you think this in any way equates to running full Windows 10 on a mobile.
 

gatortpk

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Nov 25, 2003
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If it follows the pattern of iOS thus far, it may not be until iOS 14 before we see another major shift in design.
I think you mean iOS 13. iOS 1-6 original design, iOS 7-12 current design, iOS 13-18 next generation design. With this pattern, we're halfway through the current design. It's hard to imagine all the future changes. (Especially the A13 SoC hardware changes that go with iOS 13, except that it would likely power future Macs as well.)
 

CTHarrryH

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And half the people on this forum will think it is the worst thing to ever happen to IOS and the other half will love it. About 43 threads about it
 

Jimmy James

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I hope so.

I have no problem with flat design but I really dislike some of the design choices. I don't want a white box covering my screen each time I change the volume. I don't like that the letterbox border toggles between black and white when I'm looking at pictures. That couldn't be a worse choice IMO.
 
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TRDmanAE86

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This could be a example of another jailbreak tweak integrated into the official iOS version!

Personally, I feel that if they did a watch face OS, it would have to be a setting in the OS!
 

lagwagon

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The only thing I would like to see is a change to the Springboard. It's been the exact same since iOS 1. It's about time we see some tweaking to it, to make it fresh and new. I don't necessarily mean a complete overhaul, but at least some changes. The same ol' grid is quite old and stale.

But I doubt much will ever change to it, since it's pretty much the iconic "look" of iOS.
 
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QuarterSwede

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The only thing I would like to see is a change to the Springboard. It's been the exact same since iOS 1. It's about time we see some tweaking to it, to make it fresh and new. I don't necessarily mean a complete overhaul, but at least some changes. The same ol' grid is quite old and stale.

But I doubt much will ever change to it, since it's pretty much the iconic "look" of iOS.
And it just got the 3D Touch UI. It's not going anywhere.
 
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lagwagon

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It will be called that, at least in speech.

I was thinking about it last night. I had the thought of iOS sticking to iOS X like OS X has. And doing the same naming scheme like in OS X so that they tie in together.

This is purely just an example. But say it happened last year. It would have been OS X Yosemite and iOS X El Capitan. Two OS's, OS X (the bigger OS) is the area and iOS (the smaller OS) is something in that area.

This would make it so we wouldn't have a iOS 23 later down the line.
 

bushido

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i doubt it, they r still trying to fix things form iOS 7 days but for the love of god, get rid of that stupid home button already.
 
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