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VictorMortimer said:

Apple's own fault for hyping garbage.

Apple figured out - too late - that it's impossible to get a LLM to not hallucinate.  And sometimes, like doing cute pictures in Image Playground, that's not a huge problem.  But it's always going to give you garbage search results, and that can be a HUGE problem.

If you follow the evolution of LLM technology, you'll see that Apple is openly contributing to the advancement of the tech in ways that directly address the current known issues, such as hallucinations. The very reason Apple -hasn't- released this tech to its users should be seen as a strength, not a weakness. We should be applauding them for their restraint. Patience pays off.

Good riddance. Loyalty means something, and Apple doesn't need anyone non-committed filling its ranks.

How does a competing "browser engine" help me as a consumer when all of the value-added benefits of competing browsers is the rest of the stuff?

Is it the extension support in Firefox? Extensions won't work in Firefox on iOS when WebKit is the browser engine? That seems like a stretch.

Competition is good, but this seems like an odd battle. For years. Firefox had a sub-standard (slow and bloated) browser on Macs. Where was the wolf cry over that disconnect?

There's nothing inherently wrong with WebKit. It is a near-equal engine alongside the other majors. So what are the major issues at stake?

I really wish I could get inside the heads of some Trump voters and know how they -really- feel about this running comedy show... Junkware. Not "Great".

Rogue01 said:

So it is Aqua, without any color, from 2000.

With iOS 7, the heavy transparency was awful because everything blended over itself and over the next few iOS updates, the transparency was significantly reduced so you could actually see what you were doing without elements from behind bleeding into everything else.  I imagine the same will occur again.  The screenshot above showing the Home Screen looks just like iOS 18, with a few minor tweaks to the icons.  Not that much of a change.  Not exactly a 'radical' design change as all the websites claimed.

So many negative comments being posted about Liquid Glass based on pictures and video demos. Once you start to use Liquid Glass, you'll see it's way beyond Aqua (and Vista). Interface elements have physical attributes that extend way beyond just a visual appearance.