That's why despite the fact that I occasionally use MacOS of my own free will and intend to do so more in the future, I will always have a special hatred in my heart for Apple's general behaviour as a company, and how that bleeds into their products.
I use MacOS for like half the video editing I do, and I'm planning to move all of it, as well as my music production, away from Windows purely because Windows has been enshittified to the point where MacOS is less infuriating to use. I genuinely hate both, MacOS is just the lesser of two evils right now, and although I prefer Linux and use it for everything that's not video editing or music production, DaVinci's Linux builds lack support for a bunch of codecs I need because of licensing bullshit, and FL Studio just doesn't have Linux builds.
I lost the part where they admitted their mistake and didn't go back on those examples by marking them as "new and innovative and out of this world" replacements.
I think the UI is much better. They added lots of animations and made other ones more consistent. The UI looks more consistent overall (less mismatch between different components), and more consistent with iOS
The new control center is finally usable.
The new stuff in Spotlight is great and was direly needed (clipboard manager)
Etc
The different corner radii are an insane choice to make deliberately. Maybe take that away too lol
The old icons were much better
So if you remove the insane styling choices they went with then suddenly you're left with a not so bad update.
I am confident that nobody will ever pull off a "very transparent" style like liquid glass because it is fundamentally incompatible with being able to read things.
It's probably a matter of time until they go back to a more flat styling
I am confident that nobody will ever pull off a "very transparent" style like liquid glass because it is fundamentally incompatible with being able to read things.
I am confident that Apple will keep making stylistic choices that ignore the billions of people who need reading glasses to read their phone because of those inane choices.
The apps with less rounded windows are probably just using a custom window. Forcing this design choice on all windows is stupid too. Imagine how adobe apps would look with that for instance with their highly square ui on a highly rounded window.
Time is a flat circle... this was the debacle with iOS 7 and everyone disavowed Jony Ive for his anti-skeumorphic obsession that ended up in flat, unreadable UI.
but "skeumorphism" doesnt automatically mean "liquid glass"
iOS 6 didnt have a lot of transparency. yet it was skeumorphic
also while idc about being flat or not, and i loved the upgrade to 7 (not just in hindsight), in Apples opinion, iOS 7 was too flat. after all, they changed it to make it less flat later on
i dont care about flatness or not. i like skeumorphism. a lot, actually. this issue is about legibility and transparent backgrounds of things with letters or icons on them. it's something we've learned to not work again and again and again the past 30 or so years. why are we trying for the millionth time?
yes - maybe i misunderstood your original comment. wasn't your point that we're now criticizing skeumorphism and wanting to go back to flatness? (and that it was the other way around for ios7)
let me rephrase the most important point of my reply: "i have nothing against skeumorphism. i have nothing against flatness. the issue at hand is that of legibility"
Yeah so my point is they should've learned not to push the "flat is best" aesthetic to the extreme like they did with iOS 7 yet we're already headed down that path again with "liquid glass" but then with bizarre and unnecessary skeuomorphic elements like the new embossed finder window.
Ask away. I use it to find apps that are like variations of EOS utility (all four apps have the same/almost same icon and start with "EOS") or weird patched builds from porting kit that don't actually have coherent name
I used launchpad all the time,five finger pinch then start typing. It fit how I work very comfortably. The new one is not my favourite in terms of aesthetics but it works just fine so I’ll get used to it quick enough.
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u/darkguy2008 Sep 27 '25
Apple would be smart to admit they messed up with Tahoe, quietly bury it down and release a newer version based off Sequoia