[pch00]

> Good example because Liquid Glass is obviously preparing for the next paradigm shift in computing which will actually require/open up a lot of innovation on the UI front again.

Bruh, I just want to be able to read the text on my phone.

[estearum]

Yeah: most experiments fail and even the ones that ultimately succeed have rough edges.

That's my point about people swooning about the days of UI experimentation. There's a reason we don't do it once we figure out good solutions to problems (experimentation is hard and mostly bad).

[oarsinsync]

> > Apple ... is shoving Liquid Glass onto devices that don't really benefit from it.

> Yeah: most experiments fail and even the ones that ultimately succeed have rough edges.

Vista / Aero 2.0 already did Liquid Glass. At least they had the decency to ship a "turn this shit off" toggle that actually worked.

[estearum]

Vista/Aero 2.0 was purely for aesthetics. Liquid Glass is obviously to enable UIs overlaid on top of uncontrolled content (i.e. camera input from the real world, or be used through fully transparent displays).

Apple really has to bite the bullet somehow here if they want to get everyone over to what they see as the next computing paradigm.

[nemomarx]

Much like transparent glass tablets in sci Fi movies, this looks pretty cool but I think makes text hard to read and gets old immediately. Is it really a compelling new paradigm?

I think if I had a really improved version of Apple vision I would still want non transparent windows that are clean and easy to read, not floating holograms with glass like distortion?

[estearum]

All important questions to answer and problems to solve.

It would be interesting if someone had a way to throw a couple hundreds thousand designers and developers into an environment where they have to find solutions so we could get a head start before the relevant hardware goes fully mass-market...

[nottorp]

The iphone is kinda fully mass market.

[nottorp]

And I don't want the fucking notifications displayed on my glasses!

Oh wait, I have them all off. So what will AR do for me?

[estearum]

I already have a physical keyboard! So what will a touchscreen do for me?

Turns out that interaction shift actually enabled a lot.

IMO any individual (like you or I) are unlikely to immediately conjure up every possible high-value idea that AR makes possible.

Not saying those ideas necessarily exist (though I suspect they do), just that your lack of imagination isn't evidence against them existing and being discoverable in the next 10-20 years.

[nottorp]

> I already have a physical keyboard! So what will a touchscreen do for me?

Replace a keyboard only in space constrained situations. Otherwise I'll use a keyboard thank you.

[xyproto]

Just real-time text translation and annotating faces with names would be cool.