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1. jtbayly · 1790005317 · focus · HN ↗

   Yeah, I’ll wait to update my computers until Apple gives us an actual choice.

   1. wahnfrieden · 1790007511 · focus · HN ↗

      Time to permanently offboard from Apple ecosystem then

      1. jtbayly · 1790008115 · focus · HN ↗

         Perhaps eventually. I know I’m in a “closed ecosystem,” and that removes a fair bit of choice in a variety of places. But Apple is known to walk bad decisions back at times. This update is an example, with liquid glass. Another recent one was the iCloud private email planned domain change being scrapped.

         1. wahnfrieden · 1790011975 · focus · HN ↗

            Liquid Glass was rushed out because their flagship WWDC feature, Apple Intelligence, wasn’t ready as expected. They knew they didn’t finish refining Glass as they had intended to. They had unfinished work with Glass that got pushed to this year due to the last minute change in direction. The refinements we got weren’t only the product of feedback and they already intended to revisit the design.

            This situation is a bit different where they’ve taken several years delay now to refine their AI strategy before releasing it.

            If they let users permanently opt out of their AI rollouts this early on, their stock will plummet. They’re going to focus on making it better to drive adoption and value instead of letting people remove themselves from exposure to what they have in the pipeline.

         2. bee_rider · 1790013826 · focus · HN ↗

            I mean they added a slider to make Liquid Glass slightly less bad, but the “good” end is just the old “reduce transparency” option. They’ve got a lot of progress to make, if they are ever going to give us back the pre-liquid-glass UI density.

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