'You are not missing out': Why iOS7 isn't worth it

They say change is good. But when it comes to Apple's new iOS7 update, the change doesn't seem so good after all.

I am a complete lover of all Apple products and own many, but I just cannot seem to understand the hype surrounding the new software system.

Before I go on to criticize the system and the people who obsessed over it, I will say that I did, in fact, download it. By the way everyone was talking about it and the anticipation I felt from others, I was expecting my iPhone to be able to fly, speak fluent dog and do all my homework for me without me having to lift a finger. Much to my dismay, the new software accomplished none of those tasks.

I was in class when the update became available and I specifically remember the people around me taking their phones out mid-class to try and quickly download the software without our professor noticing. It was at that same time that I got a text from multiple friends from home (which is obviously New Jersey because everyone is from there) with the words iOS7 and every possible positive emoji that existed.

I guess I didn't understand, and I still don't understand, why the world needed to download the software the minute it came out. It was as if time stopped and people everywhere came to a group consensus that downloading the new software the minute it came out would somehow make it cooler or give them a drastic advantage over everyone else.

The software was still going to be there after class got out, that night, and for the next week. And the people who chose to download it hours later were still going to have the same software update as the ones who found it crucial to download instantaneously. I'm sure Steve Jobs would have loved the hype, hoopla and immediacy surrounding the update but I, for one, was not a fan.

I downloaded iOS7 much later in the day while I was at the library and obviously distracted from my work. I thought downloading the hotly anticipated software would be a great opportunity for me to focus on my assignments because I would be iPhone-free. That idea totally backfired and I think it is part of the reason that I am so unenthused with iOS7.

I was forced to delete everything I once loved about my iPhone. Five hundred of my 1,919 songs were deleted and my most-loved pictures of my friends from home were gone too. And this was only after I deleted almost every app and text message on my three-year-old iPhone 4s. Apple and the iOS7 enthusiasts failed to tell me ahead of time that the new software update would need 3.1 GB of storage.

I literally don't think the download could have taken longer and it seems ridiculous to me that the rest of the world and I put ourselves through the torture of waiting almost two hours for new software.

Like I said, I'm totally on Team Apple, but just couldn't find the love for the new software.

Yes it looks pretty and a flashlight is now easily accessible from the home screen, but were the new icon pictures worth my almost two hours of time and my favorite music and pictures? I don't think so.

The slight changes are a nice touch but the merit just doesn't seem all that worthy.

So for those of you who don't have iOS7, you are not missing out. And for those of you who do have it, I hope you didn't waste as much time as I did, hoping and expecting my world to be changed forever--because it wasn't.