brianus

The irony of this headline is that iPadOS 26 is, in fact, ruining what makes iPadOS special by replacing its innovative touch based multitasking with shitty warmed over ideas from macOS. 

Any time I've ever tried to make a call from my Mac or iPad, not only has the connection been really unreliable and/or with a significant delay, but almost every time the person on the other end complains that I "sound far away", whatever that means. It's basically made it a useless feature for me even though it's now been around for years. Are they ever going to fix the basic usability issues?

mikethemartian said:

Do most users want these kind of UI updates? I mostly prefer not changing unless there is a problem. Both in operating systems and applications companies just seem to move things around for the hell of it.

Absolutely not. Something useful is always lost in the transition, and frequently a new UI comes with new "system requirements" that either require a hardware upgrade outright, or result in degraded performance on older devices. Not to mention the bugs, I want Apple to improve and to innovate - "skating to where the puck is going to bell as they used to say --  not change things to change them (or to distract from the lack of innovation).

Plus the glass UI makes no sense. On Vision Pro it does, because these floating windows obscure the real world, and transparency minimizes that as much as possible. But full-screen devices like the iPhone and watch don't have any "background" to bleed through. I suppose the folding phone's supposed Stage Manager like UI would "benefit" from this transparency when opened; maybe that's part of it, but if so that again just sounds like a Windows Vista gimmick from 20 years ago.

9secondkox2 said:

Windows vista ui on iPhone, here we come. 

  hate to say it but I came here for this comment. First thing I thought. What’s disturbing is all the other parallels to that era of MS history too. Apple is now the aging behemoth that’s run out of ideas while its competitors build innovative products that define the zeitgeist. I remember all the leaks about internal dissension and dysfunction at Microsoft leading to the delays and then debacle that was Vista… sounds a lot like Apple’s AI push today. Slapping a glassy coat of paint on everything just like MS did back then is just a great comedic touch on top of everything else. 

Still waiting for any of these articles, any of them at all, to point out that the math does not add up. You can't fold a 7.8" display and get a 5.5" one on the other side. Doesn't work, unless the smaller display is surrounded by embarrassingly massive bezels. A 7.8" Display folded once would get you around a 6.1" display, same as the current "smaller" iPhones.