What people really want is less control and cat videos. Perhaps a screen with two knobs on the side…one for the volume and the other to change the picture?
And most other consumers, I would wager.
Sorry but any article about what internet users are saying about any topic is not real news. It’s not even noteworthy.
Pretty sure it disappointed most people
Not Apple fans though. They can’t wait to use their new Vista!
Aqua, an OS X theme from before you were born
It’s SO cool!
I thought it couldn’t get better when System 7 had color support. It was such a revolution. Then Aqua came along and everything changed. Liquid Glass looks pretty nice to me but I’m mostly just glad we’re getting dimension back. Material flat UI is a stain on the world.
I share the same feeling. The flat lifeless interfaces need to go.
I think there was some sort of color support prior to System 7.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II
System 6 includes QuickerGraf (originally QuickerDraw), system software used to accelerate the drawing of color images on the Macintosh II.
Hmm. Apparently System 4 had color support, which is earlier than I expected.
…it wasn’t until two years later in 1987 that Apple introduced color with the release of the System 4 & the Macintosh II.
Here’s a photo of a IIcx with a color display:
They’re going for X with L-aqua-d Glass, but look at 7, so brutalist chill
This was 4, my bad, both tho
It was a nice theme IMO
Get the fuck outta here with that! Any red blooded microphile knows XP was PEAK windows experience. The lower opacity of windows in Vista was a bright spot in an otherwise disgusting experience.
XP was “the Linux” of Windows releases… 🤘
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Yeah, I used to be a typical Apple fanboy circa 2010, always watching the WWDC like I’m going to church.
Keeping up with Apple over the past several years has been very hit or miss, and watching it yesterday just kind of pissed me off.
I just checked the Apple website and it doesn’t really look any different to me.
I can see there are changes, but I don’t even know if the average user will really notice it.
Y’all don’t see this?
I’ll have to have greyscale wallpaper.
I like the way it flwobs her face, but where there aren’t distinct background shapes, it’s like a glass of water on a plain background, just kind of a dull nothing.
The more I look at it, it’s making me feel a bit queasy actually
I like the direction, but I’d need the transparency to be dialled down a bit cause the contrast is missing.
Sure, I just don’t think it’s really that much different than what we have now. I guess I’m just indifferent to it and don’t think it’s that big of a change.
after using it for a bit, i’d say in most cases i agree: bit of a nothing burger in a lot of cases (to the point where a few times i’ve thought it was bugged and reverted to the old UI style… it wasn’t), but it’s pretty great when it comes to apps where the UI is secondary (content etc)… the diffraction in the UI rather than a blur makes the whole UI able to be ignored much easier, and IMO it’s still about as legible in most real scenarios
Almost certainly they won’t. But yeah, you’re ruining the joke.
Did the same thing the other day, there’s like some minor icon redesigns? Otherwise this mostly seems like people made up stuff.
I saw some things in the videos, but I guess I don’t really care about design too much. So maybe that’s why I don’t care. I’ll have to ask my wife what she thinks.
The platform saw more than 20,000 mainland netizens express their discontent over the new design.
Halt everything!! 20k people saying things on the internet!!
This article really needs some illustration of what the new UI looks like, and what the old one looks like for comparison
the new one looks like shit.
I bet it’s going to drain more power, since you have to render all the diffraction in real time…
The whole update being design focused is kinda disappointing. But the Liquid Glass UI does look kinda intriguing. I’m glad to get back a little of the old Skeuomorphism of old.
Though I don’t have any Apple stuff at the moment
you spelled Liquid Ass wrong.
Yeah I actually liked the whole Vista/7 era Windows looks. Didn’t like anything else about Vista but that wasn’t Windows Aero’s fault.
Apple: adds blur effects, rounded elements, and color themeing
Homo Sapians: “Wow, another groundbreaking idea from Apple!”
It’s not just blur though, it actually refracts what’s behind the element, which sounds more performance intensive than it needs to be, and sometimes it’s heavily distracting, but let’s not kid ourselves that this is just windows vista on a Mac, they’re emulating more of the physicalities of glass than just a static shine
I do hate color themed icons. I understand why someone else might like it, but it makes it hard to find what I’m looking for and some of the icon designs are bland and uninspired.
If this were an optional “skin” of sorts, it would have been completely fine with me. But this is a forced redesign, and a really bad one at that. There will likely be changes before the GM release comes out, but overall I just don’t like the design direction, nor the performance implications
Liquid ass
You know
Those damn corners weren’t round enough yet, thanks Apple designers👍
I guess I’m from China then
Sorry, I really don‘t mean to be rude or hurtful, but from all I‘ve seen and I mean ALL I‘ve seen Chinese consumers have no taste whatsoever. Yes, their manufacturing has become great if they actually care about something but this argument is not about stability. What I mean is the more a company relies on the Chinese market and tailors their commodities abd luxury products around Chinese consumers, the uglier they become. Just look at European cars lately. Hideous. So yeah sorry again but I take that as a seal of quality for Apple‘s UI design.
I knew it. I knew someone would manage even the most innocuous news into a “China Bad” take.
I completely agree.
I see no reason to take their criticisms seriously. Have you ever seen a chinese website?
