Dalrymple Confirms iOS 7 Will Ship On Time With Help From OS X Engineers

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Posted May 1, 2013 at 11:20pm by Shalom Levytam

The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, a widely respected authority on Apple rumors, has confirmed a report from AllThingsD's John Paczkowski saying that Apple is borrowing OS X engineers to ensure iOS 7 ships on time.

Paczkowski writes:

Sources who declined to be named because they are forbidden to talk publicly about Apple’s plans tell AllThingsD that the company has been “borrowing” engineers from the OS X 10.9 team as part of an effort to double down on iOS 7. “Yes, yes — it’s essentially a repeat of the iPhone/Leopard scenario,” one source said, referring to Apple’s 2007 decision to pull engineers from OS X 10.5 to work on iPhone. “Not as much of a fire drill, though. It will ship on time.”

Dalrymple confirms by simply stating, "Yep."

AllThingsD's report follows an earlier one from Bloomberg which basically said the same. Apple is expected to be altering the user interface of iOS to remove the flashy, skeuomorphic design in favor of a more flat design. Of course, it will likely be unveiled at WWDC.

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Dalrymple Confirms iOS 7 Will Ship On Time With Help From OS X Engineers

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Assif - May 2, 2013 at 10:13pm

I don't care what ever version they release as long as there isn't any crapware draining the iDevices battery which renders it useless for having be used 24hrs a day @work or @any occasions as of now it barely even lasts for half a day and mostly even less than half a day(even on standby). If it gets even worser than iOS 6's battery drain does, consider yourself losing a customer and gaining a recommendation for a working persons 24hr phone.

SirSabatoge - May 2, 2013 at 4:34am

As long as it has some type of sb setting function i'll be happy

Silver Surfer - May 2, 2013 at 3:14am

Everyone seems to be talking about the new look of the UI. What about the new features?

bobdupa - May 2, 2013 at 2:35am

it might speed things but extra code will rather kill any gains. Recall how first versions of ios 4 rendered iphone 3g unusable

zetaprime - May 2, 2013 at 12:08am

Why would they want to make the new interface flat looking? That sounds like going backwards.

tommyy - May 2, 2013 at 2:01am

People are bored on many years ios UI. switch to other os. New look may attract them back to ios.

lee - May 2, 2013 at 3:46am

definitely going backwards in my opinion just what we whant, a nice BORING 1- dimensional look to resemble the Horrible windows new UI how about giving us BASIC features like being able to compose an email and attach a pic or two. wow, now there's a brilliant idea hey?

ismaeldeltoro - May 2, 2013 at 4:27am

You can always attach a single picture in your iPhone and see the beauty it brings you.

f1982 - May 2, 2013 at 8:14am

The WP8 UI is much better than iOS. Problem is, windows got there first. So they can't do it exactly the same. Android widgets are ugly and impractical, live tiles are the best solution to give the functionality but unified look. The only features I can see apple introducing here would be a link between passbook and your apple id- essentially opening up passbook to make payments. This would open up the possibility to receive payment as well as make, therefore your phone can be your wallet. I'm not expecting any groundbreaking features in iOS7, just a new UI.

RobertSquire - May 2, 2013 at 11:05am

Is that why we have themes on iOS? Im sure there's either way wich will satisfy both parites of the users.

Camfella - May 2, 2013 at 4:15pm

You really should try to catch up before you start spouting nonsense. When composing an email, tap and hold and tell me what happens?

Camfella - May 2, 2013 at 4:17pm

@Lee My comment above is addressed to you