I will resist updating till I’m forced if the released version looks like this. Horrible choice.
Apple never points a gun at your head and says you need to update software.
NEVER.
You are free to run the original software that your device shipped with.
Moreover there are mitigations in the Accessibility settings that can reduce the amount of "eye candy" that any Apple OS delivers. This is not specific for Apple's "26" operating systems, they have been around for years.
Yelling it doesn't make it true. I mean, it's technically true, but Apple doesn't support old versions of their software well at all after even just a year or so. Last-year's version of an OS will be missing some security patches after just around 6-9 months, typically, and even severe vulnerabilities are only released for OS versions that are the highest OS version some device supports. E.g., there is no device that tops out at iOS 13, and as a result, it hasn't had any patches since 202. Running iOS 13 today would be very unwise...
A poorly conceived article, full of unfounded speculation (or ones that straight up contradict the evidence we have, like the prospect that the redesign was done to cover up for the Apple intelligence "fail"), unwarranted cynicism, and ill-informed, low-effort takes. What kind of ragebait blog has this website degenerated to...
So, within a year, Apple didn't promise AI-new Siri, decided to overhaul its UI, and have it ready for WWDC 25 to distract from the overpromising of AI-New Siri stuff. I mean, do you think they came up with the idea for this UI overhaul and created it in less than a year?
That doesn't make sense. First of all the engineers working on Siri and Apple Intelligence aren't the same ones who work on UI elements of Apple's various operating systems. The latter is probably the domain of Core UI teams (for each platform OS) following the guidelines provided by Alan Dye (VP of Design). That's right, there are engineers who work on things like buttons, menu pulldown animations, progress menus, alert bubbles, animated backgrounds, etc. Hell, even the Spinning Beachball of Death was programmed by someone.
It's likely that this Liquid Glass refresh has been in the works for several years. Remember that many of its elements debuted in visionOS so it's not like it was an afterthought at the end of 2024. Most likely Apple used visionOS as a test case for the new design because VR user interfaces inherently benefit greatly from passthrough visuals.
It's not like Apple senior management writes down a bunch of ideas, tosses them into a fishbowl and pulls out a few during some beer bust in December to decide which features should be in the upcoming operating systems. Almost all of this stuff is planned years ahead of time. It's not like they say "Hey, let's give it to the interns and see what they come with."
Right and that’s what Cajun is saying - the author’s claim that this was a misdirection for missed AI features doesn’t hold water because it takes a long time to build an overhaul like this, and thus could not have been a scramble in the past months to cover for late AI features.
Comments
I know. That's what I was referring to.
Yelling it doesn't make it true. I mean, it's technically true, but Apple doesn't support old versions of their software well at all after even just a year or so. Last-year's version of an OS will be missing some security patches after just around 6-9 months, typically, and even severe vulnerabilities are only released for OS versions that are the highest OS version some device supports. E.g., there is no device that tops out at iOS 13, and as a result, it hasn't had any patches since 202. Running iOS 13 today would be very unwise...
A poorly conceived article, full of unfounded speculation (or ones that straight up contradict the evidence we have, like the prospect that the redesign was done to cover up for the Apple intelligence "fail"), unwarranted cynicism, and ill-informed, low-effort takes. What kind of ragebait blog has this website degenerated to...