Tim "Penny Pincher Cook"- Siri is ass so let's save some money and continue to say it is "coming soon" but let's distract the masses from this by adding some glass-like shades in the OS and call it "revolutionary." Also, don't forget to talk about how much courage it took to change the appearance.
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well it takes some courage to change a trusted thing. Just ask Sonos
Ugh. Yuck. Bleh. They better make sure that abomination can be turned off.
If you are to redesign an UI, you do it to enhance useability. Making round icons and drag the translucent-slider a bit upwards is not a redesign, it is at best, a "skin". This feels like a desperate attempt from a company that has no idea what to do next.
If you are to redesign an UI, you do it to enhance useability. Making round icons and drag the translucent-slider a bit upwards is not a redesign, it is at best, a "skin". This feels like a desperate attempt from a company that has no idea what to do next.
If it wasn't a big deal, apple wouldn't be scrubbing their website/ads of the "new and improved" siri. The issue isn't that it's "delayed" it is that they clearly showed a demo of something that wasn't even real.
There has literally been no actual reports that the icons are going round, just speculation.
Gurman has said absolutely nothing about round icons, Prossor has actively said that *won’t* happen.
In fact, I’d argued there’s more evidence against it, seeing as macOS switched to the squircle icons exclusively just a couple years ago.
Hopefully, this isn’t another gaslighting/buggy mess, otherwise I’ll be switching back to the other side.
I have no problem with it coming later, and I don’t even think it’s fair to call it a “missed deadline” either since they never really set a deadline. But I do have an issue with them announcing it so long before it was ready.
Until they figure out how to make a Vision Pro more people want to buy and use, it's a waste of resources to implement stuff like that.
Wasn't it reported that the feature(s) existed but it was not as accurate as Apple wanted. It was something like 70-80% correct.
One thing I can't understand is that I always thought that in the future if there is gonna be a redesign it will be for paradigm shift like when MS went from windows CE style to Windows phone 7, like invent entirely new concept how we use our phones. Yet MS went too ahead of time that as it seems even in 2025 we still did not figure out that there is something else then just icons.
I mean it doesn't matter if you make them rounded or squircle, it's still same old stuff just with different shape.
And now you're telling me there is no one in the world who is able to bring something new not even in bilion dollar company?
So we are supposed to be enthusiastic with slightly less flat but still flat design with more glass then it was in iOS7, is that it?
If so don't even bother. Or if you do, don't mention it, it's still the same design with different skin at least make sure you wont make it too form over function with too many redundant taps to open various submenus where there weren't any before.
I mean it doesn't matter if you make them rounded or squircle, it's still same old stuff just with different shape.
And now you're telling me there is no one in the world who is able to bring something new not even in bilion dollar company?
So we are supposed to be enthusiastic with slightly less flat but still flat design with more glass then it was in iOS7, is that it?
If so don't even bother. Or if you do, don't mention it, it's still the same design with different skin at least make sure you wont make it too form over function with too many redundant taps to open various submenus where there weren't any before.
It’s about time for a new direction. Let’s get away from the white, gray, flat, and soulless designs. Being back some color and whimsy. Apple needs to get back to its roots.
They were having a great time in First Class on the Titanic that was sink proof ….. until it wasn’t.
Apple used to be first class….. Now they are grasping at straws like the swimmers in the ocean as they seem to be unable to make a “clean with no bugs” operating system.
Take the time to do it right or don’t do it at all!
Apple used to be first class….. Now they are grasping at straws like the swimmers in the ocean as they seem to be unable to make a “clean with no bugs” operating system.
Take the time to do it right or don’t do it at all!
I agree! We've had this flat design for long enough now. It was introduced more than a decade ago with admittedly many iterations over the years but the main graphic design language has stayed the same. I want more color in the OS!
this is honestly what came to my mind at first! adding more glass like transparency sounds like such a Vista move and I'm all here for it! Vista was majorly misunderstood and still to this day stays as one of my most exciting OS experiences from my teenage years lol
I must politely disagree. I hated the “looks like the thing it’s replacing” design. Works for some, but I prefer the unified flatter design.
Eh, we'll live...I'm mainly worried this will result in poorer accessibility and usability because it "looks cool".
No, it is Jeremy Bearimy
(a The Good Place reference).
I’m not sure what is more surprising about this: thinking that they came up with a total redesign in 6 months, or thinking that they’re doing a risky UI change to cover some controversy.
Which MS apparently answered by having Ballmer run around their campus yelling "Transparency! Transparency! Transparency!".
Transparency is like animation and sound, a UI seasoning to use sparingly and not a "More is better" thing to dump on by the gallon like MS did.
Apple is very good with the subtle, and hope they keep it here.
A new design change is always welcome. It's going to be looking a lot more glass-like in appearance. But for some reason, I don't think Apple was thinking ahead. How are they going to chance the design of the lovely squared, rounded, grey-colored piece of cloth, aka the Apple cleaning cloth?
You are going to love it: A glass-like appearance, Apple cleaning cloth V2.0 now working in conjunction with iOS 19.
You are going to love it: A glass-like appearance, Apple cleaning cloth V2.0 now working in conjunction with iOS 19.
With the benefit of hindsight a lot of people were comparing Snow Leopard to Lion. Lion was probably even worse when it first came out. It felt slower. Most people at the time were running MacOS on a mechanical drive and performance-wise even later releases of Lion never got back up to where Snow Leopard was. That’s where this lore about Snow Leopard performance and stability comes from.
The truth about Snow Leopard? Yes, it took up less storage space, but the real reason for the ‘optimizations’ was to cut out PowerPC Macs and force those users to buy new Intel ones. A competent PR department has a way to spin a bad thing and make it sound good - and in this case it worked exactly as planned.