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Google Says Pixel Phones Won't Get Apple's Liquid Glass Design
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As the article literally states, companies have already copied it lol.
Rychiar
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Samsung copies all of apples bad decisions.
iHorseHead
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HouseLannister
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ProbablyDylan
macrumors 68040
Don't worry, they'll just add opaque padding instead of transparent padding. I love having these big beautiful screens with the same amount of content as the small phones of the prior decade!
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
This has become my main complaint about Tahoe.
The excessive corner radius coupled with excessive padding makes a given screen size class have less usable screen space in practice than ever before.
It's really frustrating.
lepetitnicolas
macrumors member
Like everything that Apple "invented" (removing the jack from iphone, removing the charger from new iphone, etc.) it's mocked by others (Samsung, Google, Microsoft, etc.) and then they'll copy it and then it becomes the norm.
I'm not saying I'm a big fan of Liquid Glass myself but I have to admit using it everyday starts to feel better, I can understand the appeal while still seeing some tiny details that I hate. Now if Google etc. wants to copy it... meh.... they can do whatever they want. If they don't want to for whatever reason then they don't copy it and that's all. It's like reading my comment : if you want to read it just do it. If you don't want no one cares just do your things.
I'm not saying I'm a big fan of Liquid Glass myself but I have to admit using it everyday starts to feel better, I can understand the appeal while still seeing some tiny details that I hate. Now if Google etc. wants to copy it... meh.... they can do whatever they want. If they don't want to for whatever reason then they don't copy it and that's all. It's like reading my comment : if you want to read it just do it. If you don't want no one cares just do your things.
drunkaviator
macrumors regular
It's not like that creaking Tensor chip could render it anyway...
Google “Not happening…this year”.
The Android operating system for Pixel smartphones is not going to take design cues from Apple and adopt a Liquid Glass aesthetic, Google Android president Sameer Samat said recently (via 9to5Google). In response to a social media mockup of an Android device with a Liquid Glass design, Samat said, "Not happening! Y'all are wild."
The mockup was in response to a teaser video for The Android Show: I/O, which depicted the Android mascot pulling a light switch and turning translucent. The teaser led Android users to believe that Google would adopt an iOS-like design for Android.
Google's Pixel devices use its Android operating system, but Google also allows other smartphone makers to use Android. Companies like Oppo and Xiaomi have variants of Android that have been updated with similarities to Apple's Liquid Glass, and even Samsung has mimicked some of Apple's design elements.
Apple introduced the Liquid Glass design in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26, with a unified design across all of its software platforms. The new design has been a major change for Apple users, and it is not universally popular.
Google has been using its Material Design since 2014, though it has been updated several times since then. Google introduced Material 3 Expressive in 2025, adding more natural, springy animations and dynamic color themes.
Though Samat said Google is not adopting Liquid Glass, rumors suggest it is going to embrace translucency. Google is rumored to be adding more blur in Android 17, offering a flatter, more frosted glass look. Google will reveal more about Android 17 on May 12.
Article Link: Google Says Pixel Phones Won't Get Apple's Liquid Glass Design
Samsung “already started”
Liquid Glass is stunning and most of the people I know, anecdotally, love it.
The complainers can get their slider in 27.
turbineseaplane
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Reason077
macrumors 601
It doesn’t need a slider. It needs an ON/OFF switch!
Black_Mage
macrumors 6502
Actually what I heard from industrial chatter, Google DID experiment with translucent design for the OS, and was very close to implementing it. They scrapped it due to pushback from phone manufacturers saying way Google was planning to implement, graphics would drain the battery. It wouldn’t be problem for Pixel lineup, but from other manufacturers it was going to be a major headache.
This is again where Apple designing chip and hardware and software all in one house wins agains, and they were able to bring it to most of device.
And if you hate Liquid Glass at this point, you should just abandon Apple because it’s here to stay, like Aqua.
Translucency is better for clarity and readability said no one ever in the history of mankind.
Apple has really sunk to a new low Operating System wise
Apple has really sunk to a new low Operating System wise
goobot
macrumors 604
Yep, apple was scrambling to get apple intelligence working so they put out a poorly thought out ui update for os 26 in the meantime.
turbineseaplane
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ThomasJL
macrumors 68020
Even without Liquid Glass, which is flat design, Android will still look awful because it still uses flat design. iOS's Liquid Glass is a flat design variant called "glassmorphism," and Android's design is a flat design variant called "Material You."
Flat design was pioneered by Microsoft under the leadership of that buffoon Steve Ballmer. Both Apple CEO Tim Cook and then-Google CEO Larry Page were so clueless and mediocre that they copied Microsoft by implementing flat design. And current Google CEO Sundar Pichai is just as clueless and mediorce as Page.
