Tag: ios7

Reviewing the iPhone 5S while travelling

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One of the interesting quirks of my trip to San Francsico last week was I spent the time using an iPhone 5S in anger, as opposed to my regular Windows Phone device. How it compared will be an article on All About Windows Phone in the next day or two, but if you’re looking for a standalone smartphone review for the regular consumer, head over to my write-up on Forbes: Cards on the table, this is not going to be a forensic review of the iPhone 5S. Seven weeks ago it reached the hands of the public, and since then

Apple developers given little choice but to deploy iOS 7 updates

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Over on Forbes, I’ve taken a look at the opportunity presented to iOS developers with the new UI changes in System 7 iOS 7: Technically they’ve avoided doing a compatibly break with the code base, but for any iOS application to stay relevant it’s going to have to be re-coded for the new UI. Because of that process these apps will look fresh and new to everyone using the. There will be some hold-out applications, but in the main the top tier applications that everyone will be exposed to will all have been updated in the six months leading up

First iOS catches up, then it will overtake

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Scott Matthewman on the new UI inside iOS 7 With the transition from iOS 6 to 7, those cosmetic changes are huge. There’s no doubting. Opening up an iOS 6 app now, straight after using one designed for iOS 7, is jarring. The changes are also incomplete, and there are some very rough edges (I’m already hating the new Safari icon, which looks more like a wireframe approximation). According to links that friends have shared with me, iOS 7 is just “catching up” with Windows Phone and Android with these changes. In some respects, that’s true. But without them, it was