It’s one thing if a product doesn’t knock my socks off; it’s another for it to depress me. But there we were, iOS 7 and I, just minutes after installation, and boy, I was not feeling happy.

The new version of Apple’s mobile operating system, the backbone of every iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, looked to be a classic case of tweaks for the sake of tweaking. Icons, fonts and colors were all different; familiar functions worked in unfamiliar ways. I didn’t want to relearn old features. I wanted new features, improved usability. What, Apple, had you done?

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