Imagine you were sent to Heaven. All those white clouds, white-robed old guys with beards, golden gates and walls, and blue skies…now take out all of the gold, most of the blue, and ALL of the shadows and black and everything to do with not-pure-white colors, and you have iOS 7. And a very good excuse to have a low battery.
Well okay, it’s not ALL white, but you can really mess up your eyes if you stare at this stuff too long.
AND, also, warning, technical alert: It takes a little bit more power to display a white pixel than a black pixel. When a pixel is black it is basically off…it’s activated, but none of its red, green, or blue components are on. When a pixel is white, all three of the components are going full blast, and it takes a lot more power…but on a small scale. For a single pixel. If you scale up the number of pixels, that exponentially increases the amount of power needed. Now scale that to an iPad screen (with a Retina display), and you have a very good method of stealing power from your battery. I am at 4%. After nary a month. Less than half a month. I have no idea if it’s supposed to do that but it does.
Also iOS 7 is supposed to detect the color of your iDevice. If you have a black iDevice, the UI will be mostly black. If you have a white one the UI will be mostly white. I have a black one, and the UI is mostly…white. So far, even with the other aspects of iOS 7, I am not that impressed. Even with Control Center.
And whoever thought up the blur effect and attempted to connect that with having “a sense of your context” needs to get a life. You can have a person in front of a yellow background, and the exact same person doing the exact same thing in front of a deep red background, and you have a completely different feel, even without the blur. What context are we talking? People? There’s no people in blurs, figure that out, Apple, please!
As for where the UI is going next, I actually have a specific answer! Just turn toward the Game Center, where you tap bubbles, yes, honest-to-god single-color LIGHTED bubbles. They look exactly as if you blew bubbles with soapy water with food-coloring mixed in. Giant colored 3D bubbles. Look forward to it…maybe?
I am at 2% battery life. Time to end this before my iPad dies.