John Kirk for Techpinions:

I mean,

Marco Arment answering the question whether anyone thinks changing the font in iOS 7 had anything to do with “bloggers bitching”:

In short: Absolutely. (Also, “bloggers” doesn’t really mean anything anymore: this had something to do with people writing and talking about it.)

Can any of us make Apple change things? Certainly not. But this isn’t the first time bitching about something has caused the company to reconsider something (see: transparent menu bar in OS X). Just because Apple doesn’t let its employees discuss things openly doesn’t mean it operates in a complete vacuum.

And they really need to do something about slide to unlock.

Benedict Evans:

In other words, your customers’ relationships with you are the only relationships you have as a business and you think a lot about them. But you’re one of a thousand things your customer thinks about in a week, and one of dozens of businesses.

Well, unless you’re Apple and your customer is an Apple blogger. But 99.9 percent of the time, yes.

iOS up 3.5 points to 41.9 percent thanks to T-Mobile, Android up just 0.1 of a point to 52 percent, according to Kantar Worldpanel (via TUAW).

Also:

Windows remains in third with 4.6% of sales, up 0.9% versus the same period last year.

Well on their way to overtaking Android by year end. (No, I will not stop linking to that.)

Rene Ritchie:

The physics is one thing, but it goes beyond that as well. Where everything in iPhone OS 1 to iOS 6 looked rendered, everything on iOS 7 looks on-the-fly. Animation, interaction, color, type, control, everything. To beat the irony out of a dead horse, Apple has made iOS dynamic. They’ve made it come alive.

The more you use iOS 7 the more this is on display. Android users will likely point to the fact that their OS has had dynamic backgrounds for quite a while, but there is a vast difference between a background that moves (and for me, distracts — I don’t use dynamic backgrounds in iOS 7 and don’t think I ever will) and getting the whole OS to move in a way that makes more sense.

Slide to unlock still needs an arrow, though.

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Last month I estimated Apple sells about 12 percent of its iPhones through its own stores. In a talk with Apple’s retail store leaders, Tim Cook revealed it’s actually 20 percent. So, I was quite off but that means the analyst who said Samsung sold more phones in the U.S. than Apple was way off and that was really the point.

The real winner in this is, of course, Ubuntu TV.

Christa Mrgan writing for Macworld:

While design is often subjective, many of problems that have been noted with iOS 7 are ones that already have solutions, which is why they feel like missteps here.

When I said “let’s nitpick” this is exactly what I had in mind. A thoughtful critique without histrionics.