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What are your opinions on Liquid Glass?

My opinion:
Unnecessary energy consumption due to superfluous visual gimmicks leads to excessive battery wear and tear, and therefore to earlier battery or complete device replacement. That's bad for the environment and my wallet, but very good for the shareholders - no wonder, "they" love it!
 
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Bazza1 said:
Both.

Apple users remain easily distracted.
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I think it would be fair to say that anyone that loves tech (no matter the brand) is easily distracted. Check out any of the brand or device specific (MS/Windows, Samsung, Google/Android, etc.) popular tech forums and you'll see the same distracted ready to defend/promote their favorite thing folks camping out.😉
 
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LiquidGlassfan said:
I've seen liquid glass at it's best moments, where I just stop and think 'wow'
i've also seen it bug and look even worse than m3 expressive(it's tough to look THAT bad')
some people hate on it while others shower it with compliments
what is the general ratio?
BTW I am posting this on my kindle coloursoft and my dad has a 16 pro max with my mom having a 17PM
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Its our times version of skeuomorphism. And that’s not a good thing.

It doesn’t look modern, it just looks different.

It just looks like early Android skins.

I feel it already looks outdated.

It’s just as annoying and useless as RGB lights on RAM DIMM’s.

It "steals" space around what was before a clean edge.

It’s like velour seats in your car.

The extra movement is annoying visually as it either steals attention or uses up energy while you block it out.

It doesn’t add any "value"

It’s not optional



Hey Apple, just make iOS skinnable already. You don’t have to make things super complicated just because you’re super clever.
 
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SebCohen said:
Hey Apple, just make iOS skinnable already. You don’t have to make things super complicated just because you’re super clever.
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Absolutely: custom launchers, theme support, icon packs. With Dye gone, Apple should acquire Niagra or Smart Launcher and put those employees in charge of UI.
 
SebCohen said:
I’m like "how long can I suppress my urges and keep my M1 iPad?"
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SebCohen said:
Its our times version of skeuomorphism. And that’s not a good thing.

It doesn’t look modern, it just looks different.

It just looks like early Android skins.

I feel it already looks outdated.

It’s just as annoying and useless as RGB lights on RAM DIMM’s.

It "steals" space around what was before a clean edge.

It’s like velour seats in your car.

The extra movement is annoying visually as it either steals attention or uses up energy while you block it out.

It doesn’t add any "value"

It’s not optional



Hey Apple, just make iOS skinnable already. You don’t have to make things super complicated just because you’re super clever.
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Sounds like you might just be better moving on, as unhappy with Apple as you are. I'd probably have been frightened to see your BP while you were posting that rant...😏
 
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bondr006 said:
Sounds like you might just be better moving on, as unhappy with Apple as you are. I'd probably have been frightened to see your BP while you were posting that rant...😏
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I’m on my first iPhone….looong time iPad aficionado. Honestly, the iPhone has impressed me more than its disappointed me. But this stuff here….its rather fuglybugly.
 
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bondr006 said:
I quite like it. Something different that works for me. I actually like 26. I am on 26.2 for my iPhone and both iPads, and it is probably my favorite so far. I go all the way back to the first iPad, and iPhone 3. I had a couple iPod Touches before my first iPhone so I'm very familiar with iOS from the beginning.

Tinted slightly green to go with background.

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One this I wish about the clear setting is that the emojis would also change to clear. I have a couple of folder names by just using emojis and it looks weird when those are colored and nothing else is.
 
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I think it's pretty stupid, and not even all that pretty or fun to use. What was the point of this? Can anyone tell us?

I wish instead Apple would address their schizophrenic habit of changing basic functionality for no reason whatsoever even between dot releases, making formerly useful and easy things stupidly more complicated; this is a mobile device, and it has different utility, and again - this is stupid. Not sorry to see Dye go - the software team seems to be riding the coattails of the hardware team, who are doing awesome things, with nothing useful to offer whatsoever.

Really, Apple: your modern software team is absolute garbage, and I hope Dye leaving fixes this, at least on the mobile side. It's on you guys, now: show us you can do better, but suffice it to say, the Mac OS is also becoming a joke where formerly it lead the way. Why did Apple decide to start following instead of leading?
 
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Clowndip said:
I think it's pretty stupid, and not even all that pretty or fun to use. What was the point of this? Can anyone tell us?

I wish instead Apple would address their schizophrenic habit of changing basic functionality for no reason whatsoever even between dot releases, making formerly useful and easy things stupidly more complicated; this is a mobile device, and it has different utility, and again - this is stupid. Not sorry to see Dye go - the software team seems to be riding the coattails of the hardware team, who are doing awesome things, with nothing useful to offer whatsoever.

Really, Apple: your modern software team is absolute garbage, and I hope Dye leaving fixes this, at least on the mobile side. It's on you guys, now: show us you can do better, but suffice it to say, the Mac OS is also becoming a joke where formerly it lead the way. Why did Apple decide to start following instead of leading?
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Works well for me. I actually love what they've done to 26 and can honestly say that it's my favorite version of iOS and iPad OS so far. Maybe it's time to move on to something else if Apple agitates you so much. Honestly a lot more important things in this world going on that should raise your BP. Wish they were all as easy as switching up the phone I use.😉
 
Not a fan of it. For starters, I think it looks hideous. There is nothing beneficial about going to Liquid Glass from a functional standpoint. The OS is still locked down as it always has been, but they've decided to copy a theme from the 2009 HTC Sense.

I would rather Apple fix the disaster that is the Keyboard, allow more functionality/freedom in the File Manager, and for god sakes do something with the notifications.
 
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Maybe I'm in the minority on this site, but I like LG. I don't spend time looking for flaws, it looks and works fine for me.

I do agree with @flybub though...the Keyboard is a disaster, at least from a functional POV and has been for years.
 
Yeah this may sound a little off and weird, but for the touch screen world id probably move towards a more NextStep bordered rectangle method with some sort of universal menu
 
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