iOS 7 Beta: An Estrogen-Addled Mess Designed for 13 Year Old Girls

Technology and Other Musings ^ | June 12, 2013 | Jim Lynch

[Jeff Chandler]

But my eyes!!! It felt like someone had dragged a cheese grater across my eyeballs when I saw the iOS 7 home screen, with its horrendous icons that looked like they were designed by Lisa Frank! Yes, the iOS 7 beta comes perilously close to looking like Lisa Frank’s “Stuff Girls Love” site.

[pkmaine]

Thank you for that tip!

[Mike Darancette]

Looks like “Hello Kitty” they could butch the screen up a bit.

[Mister Da]

I'm gonna guess that Siri needs a network to provide its knowledge base, not its voice recognition (VR).

The phone already has rudimentary VR with its ability to make calls & play music via voice command, so much of the the VR software is already on the phone. Voice matching software requires no huge server. Stored pass-phrases would use little storage space, no more than any other short audio file like a ring tone.

There is just no need for a network to have VR software secure the phone.

[a fool in paradise]

I'm glad to see that Jimmy Lynch can find work in this economy.