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  • Apple's new and sweeping user interface design is called 'Liquid Glass'

    blastdoorblastdoor
    I’m not necessarily opposed to a fresh coat of paint. And making the UI more consistent in appearance across devices can be a positive.

    There are also some new features here and there that seem like genuinely useful improvements. 

    But the elephant in the room is that Apple is noticeably behind in the most important and exciting new technology since the web. They can catch up and I think they will catch up. But they are clearly behind right now and there’s no fresh coat of paint that can cover that up.
    Alex1N9secondkox2muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple's new and sweeping user interface design is called 'Liquid Glass'

    blastdoorblastdoor
    Liquid, eh.. like 'aqua' ? Is it lick-able? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)
    Rogue01williamlondonhammeroftruthAlex1N

  • Apple Intelligence translation for users, new AI tools for developers coming at WWDC

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    https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/07/swift-6-llms

    Gruber talks about the productivity disadvantage for developers using Swift 6 because Apple doesn’t have AI assistance for developers and the lack of open source swift 6 code means other AI developer tools also don’t support swift 6 well.

    apple is falling behind in a serious way here 
    williamlondonctt_zh

  • Trump trade war delays Apple Intelligence's debut in China

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    9secondkox2 said:
    China gonna China. But it's not like everyone is clamoring for th current version of Apple's AI.
    Srsly. I use the enterprise version of ChatGPT almost every day for real work. All I’ve used apple intelligence for is Genmoji. 

    Anybody arguing Apple isn’t behind is either a hopelessly delusional fan or just knows nothing about what others in this field are doing. 
    williamlondonnubusavon b7ssfe11mr moeCrossPlatformFrogger

  • Apple teases OS redesign with new 'Sleek peek' splash page tagline

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    A fresh coat of paint can make all that is old seem a little less old. And it generates buzz as people debate whether they like the new look better than the old look. 

    But I'm becoming convinced that folks who have used the Copland analogy for AI are right and I was wrong to be dismissive of that analogy. While Apple's current difficulties with AI don't threaten the company the way difficulties with Copland did, there are still a lot of similarities. With Copland, apple promised to bring a lot of cutting edge OS features -- preemptive multitasking and memory protection -- to MacOS. Those were features present in other operating systems, but the approach Apple took to adding those features to classic MacOS failed miserably for project management/leadership reasons as much as technical reasons. 

    Today, the AI features Apple desperately wants and needs to bring to their products exist in products from other companies but Apple's project management/leadership appears to be failing big time. Apple can turn it around, and I bet they eventually will. But for the time being, this really looks like a mess. 
    williamlondonavon b7AfarstarelijahgAlex1N