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Theory: Apple introduced the Liquid Glass design to distract from the AI disaster

fisherking said:
people say that every time apple makes changes to their GUIs. so i'll bet you a macbook that, in time, the current look will become comfortable for (almost) everyone. and someone will say the same thing you're saying now when we see the next major shift in apple GUIs...
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I entirely agree with the summation that people get annoyed by GUI changes and then get used to them

in this case however, they have made the UI objectively less user friendly in order to shoehorn in a design language meant for a completely different interface

this isn't a new take on keyboard/pointer interface, this is slapping a touch/spatial interface on top of such purely for the sake af aesthetics
 
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nathansz said:
I entirely agree with the summation that people get annoyed by GUI changes and then get used to them

in this case however, they have made the UI objectively less user friendly in order to shoehorn in a design language meant for a completely different interface

this isn't a new take on keyboard/pointer interface, this is slapping a touch/spatial interface on top of such purely for the sake af aesthetics
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it's beta 1, let's see if & how this gets refined over time...
 
fisherking said:
neither hopeful nor discouraged, will deal with it as it goes. meanwhile, am thoroughly enjoying running os26 as it is right now ☺️
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It’s the opposite for me

I try and use it in the morning and once i inevitably revert to sequoia it’s like a breath of fresh air

All the floating stuff is both distracting and steals too much screen real estate for me

Not to mention I do a lot of work in safari (Sharepoint) and losing the compact tab bar is just brutal
 
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It’s the opposite for me

I try and use it in the morning and once i inevitably revert to sequoia it’s like a breath of fresh air

All the floating stuff is both distracting and steals too much screen real estate for me
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at this point, (almost) none of it seems intrusive, am just doing what i always do. but fwiw, just installed os 26 on my mac, and am gonna need some time...
 
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I’d actually argue that they went with Liquid Glass as a way to stop Android OEMs borrowing their aesthetic. It will be difficult for 3rd parties to replicate the glass textures. Note that this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re any good.

A bigger worry is Apple continuing to cannibalise its own products instead of taking influence from elsewhere. IOS7 was a direct reaction to Windows Phone 7 making the rest of the market look dated. It even made Google tidy up the chaos that was Android at the time. In the last 5 years we’ve had influence from WatchOS and now VisionOS (with a heavy dose of the Mac thrown onto the iPad). The duopoly leave no room for a disruptor.

I can’t work out whether this is an indictment of Apple’s design team or the wider state of graphic design.
 
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