He destroyed Aqua to bring us Millennial Grey Minimalism (iOS 7) only to bring us back to something akin to Aqua. Bye, dude.
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Apple UI Design Chief Alan Dye Leaving for Meta
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What if Dye was the only sane one in the room and now they double down on the liquidness?
Given my ongoing frustrations with everything UI in Mac OS for years and this abdominal release of everything " 26 " ... : Bye !
Can't wait for a 180 degree turn, asap.
Or at least options to restore colors, contrast, etc
If they can force liquid and transparent on us.
How about the opposite???
Can't wait for a 180 degree turn, asap.
Or at least options to restore colors, contrast, etc
If they can force liquid and transparent on us.
How about the opposite???
It's funny in that all these companies are decaying into bastions of inbred thinking and repetitive 'creativity'. The ideas become ever more recycled, less original, less excited by and inspired by the richer world. Just hire the same 20 people and shuffle them between companies and what do you know - it all looks bad and is all filled with their personal failings.
Apple doesnt seem to be taking any measures or efforts in order to retain their chief engineers. So much for the shareholders .
Why would they bother though. No AI, unkept promises, and they still sold a tremendous amount of iPhone 17 series.
Might as well cut more margins and increase the price too
Why would they bother though. No AI, unkept promises, and they still sold a tremendous amount of iPhone 17 series.
Might as well cut more margins and increase the price too
AI and ML are in Apple products way before most others. Maybe you are referring to AI chat bot. Many “wow” features from the past years like copy&paste from a photo with text are ML
You're definitely in the minority. It sucks really bad. I turned ut off completely and increased the contrast. Nit going to be struggling reading on my devices just because apple wants to say it looks cool.
I meant more like LLM , assistant integration, etc .
Magic cue is fantastic. Gemini nano is fantastic too. Integration with apps is awesome too. That's what we were promised with iPhone 16
I am not convinced that these people might be better anywhere else.
No man (or woman) is an island. Even people like Jony Ive likely had an entire support system at Apple dedicated to letting them to their best work there. If the company they are going to lacks the same design-led culture that Apple had, they may not be able to replicate the success that led to companies like Meta being willing to pay top dollar for them in the first place.
At the same time, if these people decide that perhaps Apple is no longer the best place for them to work in, then leaving may not be such a bad thing after all.
So by all means let them go work for Meta or openAI or whichever other company is willing to pay them the big bucks. Good for them, I genuinely wish them all the best in their new positions, Apple will probably go on and do their usual stuff, and life goes on.