{"id":460,"date":"2013-09-23T10:29:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T10:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.vwlowen.co.uk\/?p=460"},"modified":"2013-09-23T13:31:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T13:31:43","slug":"apple-ios7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Apple iOS7"},"content":{"rendered":"

My iPhone 4 has been pestering me the last few days to upgrade to the latest operating system iOS7. A friend, who’s much more confident in messing around with these things visited on Saturday, so it seemed a good opportunity to upgrade while I had the benefit of his expertise.<\/p>\n

So we upgraded to iOS7.<\/p>\n

It puzzles me why software companies, such as Apple and Microsoft, have spent the last 15 years or so evolving the polished (glass) look of their user interface and suddenly there’s a mad scramble to abandon it and get their operating systems to look as much as possible like Windows 3.1<\/a> looked over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n

It also puzzles me that I would have expected successive versions of an Operating System to get more and more efficient in its use of processor resources. I can understand applications<\/em> getting more and more sophisticated that they need more resources but, when the operating system isn’t running any user applications, I can’t understand why successive versions use more<\/em> resources, not less. <\/p>\n

I can’t help thinking that foisting the new ‘flat look’ on us is more an attempt to stop the operating system grinding the processor to a halt rather than for any aesthetic reasons. Clearly, the iPhone 4 is struggling with iOS7 when no apps are running<\/em> which is proof enough to me that the Operating System itself is less efficient that iOS6 was.<\/p>\n

Whatever the reason – and I’m sure I’ll get used to it – I can’t help feeling they’ve made changes for change’s sake and, in doing so, will have alienated a lot of previously loyal Apple users!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My iPhone 4 has been pestering me the last few days to upgrade to the latest operating system iOS7. A friend, who’s much more confident in messing around with these things visited on Saturday, so it seemed a good opportunity to upgrade while I had the benefit of his expertise. So we upgraded to iOS7. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vwlowen.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}