{"id":8766,"date":"2014-04-29T20:45:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8766"},"modified":"2014-04-29T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T00:48:35","slug":"ios-7-squandered-a-year-of-third-party-development-on-superficial-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/29\/ios-7-squandered-a-year-of-third-party-development-on-superficial-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 7 Squandered a Year of Third-Party Development on Superficial Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.jaredsinclair.com\/post\/84237156390\/ios-7-squandered-a-year-of-third-party-development-on\">Jared Sinclair<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.jaredsinclair.com\/post\/84237156390\/ios-7-squandered-a-year-of-third-party-development-on\"><p>Fast-forwarding a year, the effect that iOS 7 has had on third party development is disheartening &mdash; which sounds like a fatuous thing to say, since there have been so many well-liked redesigns over the past year. But that&rsquo;s the rub: the vast majority of third-party developers&rsquo; time has been spent redesigning and reimplementing apps to dress the part for iOS 7. Many shops, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/tapbots.com\/blog\/business\/tapbots-and-the-state-of-our-apps-in-ios7\">Tapbots<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/culturedcode.com\/things\/blog\/2013\/09\/things-and-ios-7.html\">Cultured Code<\/a>, were forced to delay new products indefinitely while they scrapped ongoing work in favor of reboots. I suspect that many other developers had to make similar decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Can we expect the same from Mac OS X 10.10?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2014\/04\/29\/the_cost_of_ios_7\">Brent Simmons<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2014\/04\/29\/the_cost_of_ios_7\"><p>Jared argues that iOS 7 wasn&rsquo;t urgent, that evolution rather than revolution would have been fine, since customer satisfaction was extremely high with iOS 6. In retrospect I agree, but were I at Apple I would have argued that the situation is like tech debt &mdash; UI debt &mdash; and it&rsquo;s best to deal with it quickly, completely, and early.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/log.maniacalrage.net\/post\/84242618549\/ios-7-squandered-a-year-of-third-party-development-on\">Garrett Murray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/log.maniacalrage.net\/post\/84242618549\/ios-7-squandered-a-year-of-third-party-development-on\"><p>We spent an entire year with clients (and with our own apps) doing this and it was a huge pain in the ass for only visual style gains.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jared Sinclair: Fast-forwarding a year, the effect that iOS 7 has had on third party development is disheartening &mdash; which sounds like a fatuous thing to say, since there have been so many well-liked redesigns over the past year. But that&rsquo;s the rub: the vast majority of third-party developers&rsquo; time has been spent redesigning and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,31,469],"class_list":["post-8766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios","tag-ios7"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8768,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8766\/revisions\/8768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}