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0 pointsandrewmcwatters5mo ago0 comments

As someone who pretty strictly adheres to Apple Human Interface Guidelines, it's really off-putting to see them slip so badly backwards on their own published work.

There are now portions of iOS that use either iOS 18's UIKit, or iOS 26's Liquid Glass UI in apps.

It feels like Apple is having a Windows moment with their operating systems for the jarring combination of old and new UI designs sitting next to each other and it's gross. I hate it.

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thewebguyd5mo ago

Yeah it's so un-Apple like it's really jarring.

It feels like they pulled this out of their ass last minute after the AI siri failures, they had to have something to put out for 2025.

I actually don't mind it on iPhone outside of the bugs and inconsitencies, but it's attrocious on macOS and the new iPad windowing was obviously made with zero consideration for touch-first users and was only made to cater to the whiners about iPad needing to become more mac-like.

Just poorly though out all around.

bitpush5mo ago

> It feels like Apple is having a Windows moment with their operating systems

.. or by definition, Apple is having an Apple moment :)

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