If I can't revert back if I dont like it then i think there's no way I'll "upgrade" for a while until I look things over online and hear feedback. I sure miss the days before 2013 when I could automatically upgrade anything Apple-related with zero hesitation or required added research, knowing that 99% of new decisions at the time were going to be bulletproof and based on solid fundamentals as evidenced by everything else they delivered since I became a user in 2005.
No I won't completely disagree. Though I would have rather you took a stab at the Apps icon, that was my major critique -- the constant dumbing down/over-simplifying and constant minimization to where it doesn't even look like anyone's trying anymore at Apple. Apple used to be the BEST, VERY BEST with UI's, and were heads & shoulders above any nearest competitors. Now they're me-too's in a land of translucent low-contrast dumbed-down UI's coming in from all directions, all saddled with some marketing driven title (Material Design...Responsive Design...). Apple went from being the hip jock/scholar that students looked up to and whom anyone could approach to just another slacker stoner me-too'er hanging out under the bleachers, all dressed in faded denim and surrounded by a grey haze.
Someone claimed above that the apps store was mostly for games, so the popsicle sticks evoked a sense of fun & playfulness... That I can quickly disagree and dismiss as 90% of the apps on my phone are for things like banking, productivity, home surveillance/security, home automation, and daily-life-business items. Not games. Like I've said often, Apple's new mantra of giving you something more/new by taking, taking, taking away as much as possible is getting out of hand and painting themselves into a corner. Keep it up Apple - what will you do when the 3 popsicle sticks turn into a simple 'A.' At that point why even have icons, let's go back to list-based interfaces.
As for iTunes, sure that's a reasonable try, but again as pointed above by
@ThunderMasterMind, it's still called
iTunes. FWIW I would have been more impressed if they left the eighth notes and added the icons they use in the store itself: analog film roll and TV screen. Nobody should argue again using a (gasp) analog film roll depiction since they still use a 1980's telephone handset for the phone icon. But realize please I'm judging less
what they changed it to as much as: stop changing things up in ways that are just different, and instead stock to changing in ways that actually improve. The app is still called iTunes, so what did they gain by changing away from something that's worked for over a decade now, and that's just different.
And like I said: already iOS11 is making certain aspects of iOS10 seem more detailed & more interesting/intuitive, as they continue to over-think. Crazy!
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PS for the example above (dumbing down the apps icon and unnecessarily changing the iTunes icon): Each is not enough to stop me from changing to iOS11 but are more a constant reminder that Apple may have also unnecessarily changed something just to change things in a direction that's too distractingly painful. So why take the risk before I invest time researching what they changed. Like OSX's BLUE folders and dumbed-down stoplight buttons that are just too eye-painful for me to use.
