Well, I’ve been playing with iOS7 on my phone for a couple of weeks now.  I have to say that in the end, I don’t like it nearly as much as iOS6.  I actually like the parallax and the zooming, those features that are so often criticized and accused of making people sick.  I think they look good.

What I don’t like is the redesign of the apps.  All the white and overly-simplified styling just doesn’t look as good as the old apps.  What’s worse, all the non-Apple apps I know and love feel they have to change to match.  There are a lot of changes that just seem to be made for no reason at all, like round buttons on the phone keyboard instead of square.  It doesn’t look as good.

A lot was made of the change in Siri’s voice.  I use Siri all the time and I don’t like the new voice as much as the old one.  It sounds MORE computer-like.  I don’t know why anyone would have made that change.

Plus, the games that I play on my phone (I only play a few) are noticeably laggy on the new OS.  This last fact will be negated when I get my new phone in a few weeks.  I still love the iPhone.  We have one iPhone and two Androids in our house and the iPhone is so much better in so many ways that it isn’t funny.  Still, I’m going to long for the days when my iPhone and my iPad were so much prettier.