[FirmwareBurner]

This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle".

Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel peep.

I could swear we're living in a parody when I hear this being said with a straight face.

[webdevver]

App icons are per-user NFTs, and when the phone is dropped the accelerometer reports it to the ETH blockchain, and marks the app icon as "cracked", forever that user's app glass icon is cracked unless you pay $50 to AppleCare to get it "fixed"

[ofrzeta]

Have you watched this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGYUq1mklk Like straight out of a parody.

[jjtheblunt]

where are you getting that compute is being squandered on ray tracing (rather than just metal shaders)?

[crinkly]

Not OP but you're right that it's probably metal shaders as it runs on pre-RT capable iPhones. But I've tried it my spare 13 Pro. It's laggy as hell on the betas. Like really laggy. If it goes into RC/release like that it'll go down like a lead balloon.

[efilife]

Apple does not have a patent on squircles. It's got a patent on a specific shape of a device

[crinkly]

Yeah this. I'd rather we have NeXTstep back than pastel blurry glassware oblivion.

I have a longing for 10.4 on my old plastic Intel iMac at this point.