Sir Jonathan “Jony” Ive has, in one fell swoop, stolen my heart, or at least his design for iOS 7 has. Apparently I am not the only one. Across the nation, universities’ campus Wi-Fi access has slowed down or even crashed completely, allegedly because so many people were downloading iOS 7. Since Android launched Jelly Bean 4.3 in July, a Google analysis reported that less than 0.01 percent of Android devices have been updated. Even Jelly Bean 4.2, which came out in 2012, is only on 8.5 percent of Android devices.
Within 24 hours, TechCrunch reported, iOS 7 may already be on up to 35 percent of compatible devices, which includes both certain iPhones and iPads. What made this update so popular, though? Since the iPhone’s release in 2007, the operating system design has seen many different changes, but none of those changes have been as radically different as iOS 7, at least aesthetically. Until last October, Scott Forstall worked as one of the major heads behind iOS, but when he resigned from his position as senior vice president of iOS, his role was split up into many different parts, with Ive taking the reins of Human Interface design. Ive’s dislike of