Reports have been flowing in about the stage at which iOS 7 development is currently, what to expect from it and when to expect it. A interesting thread on Branch where the top tech bloggers around have put in their thoughts and information is shedding quite a bit of information regarding iOS 7. John Grubber of DaringFireball said that his sources indicated a delay in development of iOS 7 and that Apple has been moving engineers from OSX 10.9 development team on to iOS development team to quicken things. Apart from that Apple has been said to be very careful with securing iOS 7 UI to not leak out by installing polarisation filers atop of test devices that will reduce viewing angles drastically so that people passing by won’t be able to view the screens.
Rene Ritchie of iMore suggests that the planned launch date might not be delayed as iOS development is more of a continuos road map and features missed in iOS 6 will be included in iOS 7 and features missed in iOS 7 will be included in iOS 8 and so on. But because of that Apple might not delay the launch a lot.
Most of the bloggers said that they are anticipating an April iPad event that will witness launch of iPad 5 with a iPad mini like design that will be much thinner and lighter like iPad mini. Most of the craze for iPad mini has been because of it being incredibly light and slim, it will be interesting to see if iPad mini like iPad 5 will change the market dynamics again back to iPad.
Speculations are also strong about the a much changed UI in iOS 7, Grubber voiced out that iOS 7 will be a make or break deal, people will either love it a lot or hate it equally. Apple might be launching iOS 7 along with iPhone 5S this July and ship out iOS 7 to other devices when iPhone 5S shipments begin.