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Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (11 children)

I'm sorry if it's a dumb question, but didn't Microsoft already do this with Vista and Win 7? And I'm pretty sure transparency has been a thing on Android for a good while now:-?

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Frutiger Aero.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I honestly don't even know why I'm paying attention to Apple at this point, I think it's like digging my nail into a freshly scarred-over cut, just to tease that sting out a bit. It's the only way in which they have ever contributed to my feeling alive.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I only "follow" because whatever Apple does gets broadcast by every media outlet in existence. Also Google started blindly following Apple design since they killed my beloved blob emojis.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    The blob emojis were one of their best features, that's so true! I kid you not, every single time I've used Slack for work, for every single company which used it, someone had already uploaded the blobs! I really didn't understand that move, the current Smile emoji looks psychotic.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did they? MD2 and MD3 look very different from Apple's design languages

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Google themselves don't really follow material all that closely over their entire product line.

    Android 6 was basically the peak of the UI, IMO, the icons were very consistent and nice early material.

    In later versions they shrank the icons and stuffed them into circles and started using a horrible color scheme, then they killed blobmoji and started outright copying Apple's hideous emojis with that awful gradient and pseudo-skeumorphic visuals.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    i mean yes, but this is a more dynamic transperency that reacts more to backgrounds, merging/separating with other elements, etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean... look, I'm genuinely not trying to be a sour asshole, but why did we need this? How is this furthering the development of smartphone tech? It's, like... sure, pretty graphics are nice, but do we really need ray-tracing on our phones? (I know it's not ray-tracing, but you get my point)

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

    Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it's just nice to have, and that's fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine, art is fine.

    But yeah, I don't have an Apple device and likely never will, so this specific instance doesn't matter to me.

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