Agree completely, I still can't believe ios7 made it to the market. I am embarrassed to ship software that conforms to their new look. The man makes beautiful boxes, but they are blowing it.

" "We saw Apple with Steve Jobs," Ellison purred, drawing the shape of an upwards graph with his finger.

"We saw Apple without Steve Jobs," the Oracle continued, pointing his finger down to the ground "

It doesn't make any sense to have the hardware and software have opposing designs... that's why they put Jony in charge of both.

Huh, how can hardware and software have "opposing designs"? I'm just an engineer who doesn't understand design so please explain.

This my semi-outsider opinion.

Metal. Minimal. Futurism. Refined. Ive.

Kitchy. Cozy. Gaudy. Forstall and most things not iOS7 (and iOS7 has compromises) If this includes Christie now, yeah, him too.

So much of the UX has seemed to betray the industrial design. It's like Window's old "Hot Dog" color theme. I'm going to guess that Ive pushed to get people in line and the same old flat vs. skeumorphic arguments simmered since that is one specific instance of a larger aesthetic argument.

Certain aspects of the OSX are well done, but many parts are dated, klunky, and even garish.

Apple hardware looks beautiful sitting somewhere turned OFF or with someone else's app/lication loaded up. The native stuff feels like cheap plastic body kits on refined European sports cars (not the Italian ones).

Imagine a pink phone w/ a flowery case and a software ui styled to look like starcraft controls.

The box is the box. The box is supposed to be subtle. The software is the point. Design the software like the box and you have ios7.

Well, it seems to have made sense between 1984 and 2012...