Yosemite: A preview of iOS 9?

[BillyMatt87]

I know it's a bit too early to start talking about it, but it got me thinking. As iOS and OS X are now a lot closer in terms of UI design, I was wondering if the new design in Yosemite will be a taste of things to come with Apple's mobile platform.

While Yosemite was redesigned to resemble the new iOS design language, it has a much more refined and polished look and feel to it.

- More consistent and better designed icons

- Not completely blinding white screens/apps

- Didn't replace clearly identifiable buttons with plain text

- Dark mode

That being said, I think OS X Yosemite is a step forward in the evolution of Jony Ive's UI designs and it looks a lot more promising and hopefully iOS 9 or 10 will implement it.

 

[C DM]

It would have made much more sense to already have (some) things of that nature incorporated into iOS 8 as they were both being developed at the same time, rather than have a year gap or something like that.

 

[Rogifan]

To me iOS was a start from scratch whereas OSX was more of a refinement. I wouldn't be surprised to see some OSX design come to iOS. Considering we heard rumors of employees being pulled off iOS to work on OSX they probably didn't have the time/resources to spend on iOS 8 UI (outside of new features).

 

[LordQ]

I think OS X is a now just little step farther than iOS so if Yosemite is an indication of iOS 9 features, we might see that Dark Mode on iOS 9 and some other borrowed features from it.

 

[vigilant]

Theres going to be more and more similarities. I'd imagine that dark theme and etc are going to come at some point. But I think things like split screen applications are more likely to be the big center point of the new iOS.

 

[soundslikeaudio]

I haven't used it yet, but there is a night mode in the included iBooks app in iOS 8. I haven't installed Yosemite yet, so I'm not sure if the dark mode of Yosemite and this night mode are related, but if someone has, maybe they can comment.

 

[Michael CM1]

I think OS X is a now just little step farther than iOS so if Yosemite is an indication of iOS 9 features, we might see that Dark Mode on iOS 9 and some other borrowed features from it.

I'd love to see the automatic hotspot for iPads. Yes, Apple sells LTE iPads. But I sure as heck don't want to drop another $129 for the hardware and then $10 or more per month to connect that device when I can using my iPhone. Honestly that's not too big of a deal for me, but try explaining how to do that to Baby Boomers. The Yosemite way is much easier.