iOS 7.1 makes the Calendar as usable as the iOS 6 Calendar, although not by default, because we couldn’t have that. Actually, there’s a lot of that going around. The setting for button shapes has many interesting results because it was bolted on and developers have not have time to make adjustments. Reduce White Point is a spectacular setting that also spectacularly screws up the contrast on several of the most iOS 7-ish apps, including my favorite weather app, Shade.
iOS 7 is a historic fact at this point and they’re not going to go back. But they are having to evolve it out of the supposed already-perfect sprung-from-Jony-Ive’s-forehead state and make changes. Dulling the green is a welcome first step; making the dialer transitions and interface work better than in iOS 6, as opposed to significantly worse (as in iOS 7.0) is another. Most of the other changes are stopgaps. If they will break down the problems and solve them better, iOS 8 will be great. If they’ll maintain their holding-it-wrong stance and keep the stopgaps, I think it’s time to stretch my legs and find another mobile platform.
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