Not impressed or looking forward to this unless a lot of these “features” can be turned off. Web browser with no bar at the top? Hiding controls? Useless eye candy effects that jumble up the display?
Are you insane? Without Steve to temper him Ive went nuts and we ended up with laptops with no ports and a disaster of a keyboard in the relentless pursuit of thin at all costs.
LOL. No. But you might be.
It wasn’t Ive on his own. Apple wanted to go all in on USB C and backed out after it wasn’t well received on the laptops. That’s not on Ive. Also the keyboards were a hardware team failure. The thin laptop wasn’t too much. But Intel failed their roadmap and so the chassis was not the best fit. It’s was a perfect storm. And Its not like pushing the envelope is a bad thing. That’s what jobs was all about. But at the particular moment in time, all of Apple did not act as one smooth operation. It was a company wide issue.
To pretend that one product destroys a legend’s legacy when it wasn’t entirely on him to begin with is just stupidity. Look at the iMac. The iPod. The iPhone. The watch. The iPad. iOS 7 (the definition of restraint while reinventing the entire UI - which was being labeled “outdated” by pretty much everyone - until Ive saved the day yet again - and ignited a global design shift) and up. The MacBook pros he designed set the standard for all laptops - since the aluminum PowerBooks. The new ones still very similar to that. Ive was incredible with his restraint. The guy mastered revolution combined with restraint and in so doing, hit home run after grand slam, etc. absolute savage. Henke and Dye have been wise to emulate Jonny’s style and iterate upon it. It’s a perfect foundation.
The man deserves his props and then some. That doesn’t go away because Apple as a company couldn’t get it together at one time in history. Apple would be better off if they had Ive today. But alas, he did well to train up an amazing team who could take up the reigns and thrive in their own right.
Mixed bag. I like my icons to live on a clean, separated, contrasty background. I like my interfaces to be quiet and in service of the job to be done.
The problem I have with this glass look, which is cool sometimes and outdated in other screens I’ve seen, is that it floats on top of my content. It takes more effort to read.
Similarly I want my menu bar to look like a menu bar. Now they’re floating icons and I rely on Apple’s shader algorithm to see whether I like it or not.
They’re blue background - the water - looks from the early 2000s. I’ve seen Linux distros doing a better job at providing nice default backgrounds.
(Apologies for posting this here, but I couldn't find an article about the keynote itself, so this is close.)
Big thumbs up to the performance at the end of the keynote. It was funny, corny, and sincere all at once. I don't know who the singer is, but well done, dude (and all the other people involved in the production). 6 out of 5 stars!
Looking forward to playing around with it, sadly my current phone didn't make the cutoff, something needing to be rectified at some point. Love that Apple iterates the way they do with UIs.
Will these visual changes make my phone run quicker, as it sounds more processor intensive and would slow down older phones. I found disabling animations desirable, as I don't want to waste my time watching something slide or fade away before proceeding with what I wanted to do. I hope they had the time to address all their bugs, or are the new features just there as a diversion. I thought iOS was supposed to be good.
Looking forward to playing around with it, sadly my current phone didn't make the cutoff, something needing to be rectified at some point. Love that Apple iterates the way they do with UIs.
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Web browser with no bar at the top?
Hiding controls?
Useless eye candy effects that jumble up the display?
Microsoft tried this look a number of years ago
Looks like we’re in for a whole year of Apple developing this throughout iOS 26’s lifetime. Maybe by iOS 27 it’ll be polished. Maybe.
I don’t want a more computationally demanding (battery draining) UI either.
The problem I have with this glass look, which is cool sometimes and outdated in other screens I’ve seen, is that it floats on top of my content. It takes more effort to read.
Glass will be the main material.
Otherwise, Apple has been trolling since WWDC 2024.
Big thumbs up to the performance at the end of the keynote. It was funny, corny, and sincere all at once. I don't know who the singer is, but well done, dude (and all the other people involved in the production). 6 out of 5 stars!
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