When I see themes on some Android phone, my head immediately has warm memories of Symbian and Nokia. Nokia 6600 smartphone on Series 60, Deviantart site, many hours search for excellent screensavers, their installation and further joy, how much you can change the working space of the gadget. Glorious were the times. With iOS the situation is completely different. It's about whether you need themes on the iPhone and iPad - I want to talk, as well as get your opinion in the comments.
In iOS, there are no themes at the level of the operating system settings, as it was in the same Symbian many years ago. Here you can not go to the menu and select one of the five available themes, and if none is right, find the "download more" button. Now the themes of design are generally not respected, if you look at it from the side of pure OS - iOS, Android, Windows Phone - they are not found anywhere else.
The reader with experience will reasonably object that the lack of themes in each of the "operatsionok" has its own reasons. In iOS, no, because this is the policy of Apple - to give the user the most complete and concise product with the final, verified to detail design, and the possibility of changing the themes does not fall under this ideology. In Android, themes are available, thousands of them, just go to Google Play, download one of the shells and already for her to pump hundreds of themes.
Approximately the same can be done in iOS, having previously jailbroken. But this train of thought does not take into account one simple detail - the complexity of jailbreaking for a mass user. Yes, for many of you, dear readers, it will seem strange, but it's true, today there are more and more people in the world using the iPhone as an ordinary "caller" and a device for correspondence. The smartphone market is replacing the market for conventional mobile phones, so there are millions of users for whom the combination of the words "Apple ID and App Store", and not that "jailbreak and Cydia" is something obscure and incomprehensible.
What is the use of the design, since we are trying to discuss them so meticulously? By and large this is just a visual change of the smartphone home screen and nothing more. The whole question in relation to each individual person to this "visual". For someone, it is very important that the smartphone has beautiful, suitable for the OS style desktop image and lock screen, so that the shortcuts of the programs were arranged in a certain order, the icons are sorted by folders.
From this perspective, Android provides more options. The same firmware MIUI (Xiaomi) and Flyme (Meizu) include themes originally and are available in a huge amount. Moreover, the coolest thing is not even that much, but the possibility of combining and combining them - icons from one topic, visual style of the menu and fonts - from the second, pictures from the third and so on.
On iOS, as already mentioned, the option to get acquainted with the themes of the design, it's jailbreaking and installing one of the popular package for visual reincarnation - Winterboard, Anemone and t. A package is put, and already in it are selected available themes, their hundreds. And what if themes become available in the settings in pure iOS, and new ones will be available in two clicks from the App Store? I bought an iPhone man, went into the settings for the sake of curiosity or, for example, to adjust the brightness of the screen, and saw a separate line of "Themes". I looked in there, but inside dozens of different designs. If a person is curious and interested in it, he will begin to "poke" on different topics, put them, compare visual styles, etc., etc.. Thus, a person will be one step closer to the so-called "experienced users" and, who knows, maybe after six months or a year of using the smartphone will reach a whole new level of knowledge in this environment.
It sounds a little naive and strange, but think for yourself, than iOS can lure the user to study? Is that the App Store, but often this study involves the waste of money. Themes of design are completely different, they are the same from the point of view of the system and do not "clog" it, and most of the themes for shells are usually free. In this case, installing a fresh topic that people like, this is actually a visual update of the smartphone, just not external, but internal.
It is for these reasons that there is an opinion that iOS needs themes, not in the form of variations, as in the stock Android or in the form of available in Google Play loaded shells or custom firmware, but as a separate standalone service standard for the system.
How do you feel about changing the themes in iOS? Is it necessary? Or do you have a standard interface?.