{"id":15195,"date":"2013-05-27T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T07:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technightowl.com\/?p=15195"},"modified":"2013-05-27T06:37:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:37:29","slug":"newsletter-issue-704-are-you-ready-for-black-white-and-flat-all-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2013\/05\/newsletter-issue-704-are-you-ready-for-black-white-and-flat-all-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #704: Are You Ready for Black, White and Flat All Over?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you can believe the latest spate of Apple rumors, genius designer Jonathan Ive has decreed that drop shadows, gradients, shiny icons and other multi-dimensional effects in the iOS must vanish. It is henceforth minimalist, which also means those controversial skeuomorphic effects, such as the stitching effect in Calendar, will be history. Consistency rules!<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of story that, if it&#8217;s not true, will have a short shelf life. Apple will unveil the specifics about iOS 7 and OS 10.9 at the forthcoming WWDC conference in San Francisco, with the keynote set for June 10. But it&#8217;s also true that Apple has been known to carefully leak information about new products to some members of the press, for how else would they get things right on occasion?<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s possible some Apple employees are passing on this information, such things are done to their peril. If caught, they will be summarily fired by Apple, with a huge blot on their resumes. They might even have to change their identities in order to find employment elsewhere, but don&#8217;t take that seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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