The zoom feature is really unwanted and unecessary. Its nly slowing down the entire experience.
For Example. If I want to check the battery percentage when the phone is locked. I press the home button and I want to screen to appear snap like it did in previious iOS version. Now the zoom animation kicks in and takes it takes a while before the entire screen lights up.
Second example is blatant slowly down of the experience is when I minimize the app and open a new different app. The zoom animation is totally unnecessary and I don't want to see the apps open. I just want to them open. This along with the parallax is bit of a gimmic. Parallax was fun for two minute before I disabled it, shame we can't disable the zoom feature.
Apple, give an option to disable the zoom feature. Its different from people moaning about changes being made to facebook or gmail which are free services. In this case, I've paid £549 for a this device. iOS 7 more so feels like version 1 of a OS.