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> I think that’s why they haven’t jumped so far because they have hundreds of millions of users who have daily habits that they don’t want to lightly disturb.
by simgt 5mo ago
> I think that’s why they haven’t jumped so far because they have hundreds of millions of users who have daily habits that they don’t want to lightly disturb.
I don't think that's part of their decision making, Liquid Glass moved most things around for seemingly not much else than novelty and that's not the first time.
- alfiedotwtf 5mo agoWhen a company doesn’t have anything to innovate on, or hires a new marketing exec, the first thing they do is change the company logo. Liquid Glass was Apple’s logo change moment
- pram 5mo agoThere have been many metaphorical and literal logo change moments in Apple’s 50 years champ
- bmitc 5mo agoYea, if anything, it's Apple's normal mode to heavily disturb and move things around.
- bzbz 5mo agoAgreed. I vaguely remember another HN link that said Apple tried a competing-team approach to building a better siri, but it fell apart due to internal politics reasons?
- nebula8804 5mo agoLiquid Glass makes sense if this is what they are working towards: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/20th-anniversary-iphone/ https://www.macrumors.com/guide/20th-anniversary-iphone/ They have done this before, release something large early in anticipation of a major shift and iron out issues before the shift happens. Liquid Glass started off a little janky but they appear to have been ironing out initial issues with each update.
- steve1977 5mo agoFrom what I understand (which might be wrong), Liquid Glass was at least partially inspired by visionOS and "spatial computing". And I guess on that platform it might make sense for some use cases. That doesn't change the fact that I can hardly read some of the user interface in Apple Music for example. It's not that the idea is bad, but it's badly executed.
- conartist6 5mo agoI was gonna be one of their biggest native apps, but then I found out how many light-years better facebook's APIs for AR were
- paulryanrogers 5mo agoPlease say more
- conartist6 5mo agoreact-three-fiber
- conartist6 5mo agowe were (are) thinking about building the first VR-native code editor
- conartist6 5mo agoReally? None of my issues are fixed. The settings panel still has a massive gray empty chunk hanging off the bottom which makes it look like a 13 year old coded it...
- dangus 5mo agoIt only “makes sense” if you believe this concept also “makes sense.” Nobody asked for a phone with fake buttons and a fragile wrap around screen. Nobody asked for the UI to drastically change at random. I wish smartphone companies would treat their products like they were completed devices with no innovation required. They are fully mature. Instead, work on making them actually improved in ways that matter rather than trying to find “the next big thing.” Be more like Toyota and less like Tesla.
- coastermug 5mo agoIs Liquid Glass not just a means to slowly force old phones to be obsolete? - My iPhone 11 is fairly slow now and they’ve probably bought forward my next phone purchase by a year
- acdha 5mo agoLiquid Glass was also noteworthy for being the first macOS release since 10.1 which was worse across the board in a deliberate manner. They have shipped bugs before but this time it got such poor reception because all of the regressions were intentional and there wasn’t an expectation that they’d be patched. I don’t think that cavalier attitude is universal at Apple and I don’t think the Siri PM wanted to break with their past respect for UX.