The above pic shows main features of iOS 7. (Image from The Verge)

iOS 7 is freshly released. When a product is out there, it’s for people to judge. So… what do people think of it? Here is some extremely angry designers talking about iOS 7. –> Complains

I don’t mind the flat design, but the color scheme is just unacceptable. Aaron Souppouris described iOS 7 as “a marriage of designs with something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.”

From The Verge:

Such is the nature of software design; we could go through Apple’s entire UI and pick apart the influences. Apple’s new incoming call screen, which calls on users to “swipe to answer,” is similar in function to Samsung’s TouchWiz, and looks just like Windows Phone 8. The playful “parallax” backgrounds, which shift when you move your phone, were demoed by now-BlackBerry-owned TAT in 2009. The Camera app now lets you take square pictures and apply filters — sound familiar? Speaking of the Camera app, that icon looks an awful lot like BlackBerry 10’s. Aren’t those “motion backgrounds,” which feature circles and lots of soft bokeh, just like the wallpapers introduced by Google in Android Ice Cream Sandwich? The list goes on. But let’s travel back to 1994, when Steve Jobs famously paraphrased Picasso, saying that “good artists copy, great artists steal.” Taking concepts and interpreting them as your own is something all creatives do. It’s this interpretation and improvement of ideas that’s key. With iOS 7, the question isn’t whether Apple’s artists are copying or stealing good ideas — it’s whether they’re doing a good job evolving them.

It’s true. 问题不在于是否抄袭或者偷得好创意，而在于有没有很好地发展他们。