IMO there's way too much focus on the aesthetics of iOS 7. Sure it's not finished and needs more work on that front. But what I think a lot of people are missing is iOS 7 isn't just a new paint job or re-skin. There's 1,500 new APIs. I can't wait to see what app developers come up with. That's what's most important - iOS having the best apps and keeping people developing on iOS platform first.
I agree. I watched the 2nd main keynote of WWDC. The one aimed at the developers. (the main one is focused at the consumer). I'm no programmer but the updates they have done in Xcode 5 + additions like sprite kit and way too many other things to mention will really help developers make their iOS and OS X apps shine. And they can make use of all the great new features in iOS7 and 10.9 to do so. My favourite of the new Xcode features (out of what I could remember) were:
- The new way to test your code for issues
- New easy ways to see if your code uses too much memory or power or whatever
- Bots to automate commits or code testing or whatever
- Sprite kit
- No more naming file naming hell for your different iOS images. You have a UI to differentiate the different versions of images now. For the different iOS hardware your app will run on. No more having to use the file name as the differentiator.
- And there is more but I just can't remember them.
And you'd be surprised at what the crowd cheered for. A lot of the things, that most of us would find boring, they cheered for cause it'd make their coding work so much easier.
One thing I don't understand is why the 2nd developer focused keynote is called "Platforms state of the union". Maybe it's a US thing, I just don't get it. Anyway I watched that keynote out of sheer interest. And I now see all the new API's and other things Apple brings to the table with these 2 new OS's.
Anyone who says iOS7 or 10.9 is just a new UI, really does not get it, in a big way.
