I'm inclined to believe what 'mitchellh wrote:
"The Liquid Glass effects are not expensive and anyone claiming they are has no idea how modern GPUs and animation work. Anyone saying it is is either just parroting or is an idiot."
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Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#12As long as it can be disabled it is a complete nothing burger.
If it can't be disabled and ends up crippling my otherwise perfectly adequate M1 it will accelerate me to switch to daily use of Asahi Linux.
Edit: That's assuming the effects are even expensive for the GPU.
Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#13IMO the actual reason for Liquid Glass is that they can do it natively. 3rd party UI frameworks can't copy it without a massive performance hit. This brings a more clear divide between fully native iOS applications and React Native -style "build once and cross-compile" -platforms.
I get where you're coming from but React Native(RN) is a bad example. RN is actually native and uses native components. So any native view will be supported, including Liquid Glass. e.g. https://expo.dev/changelog/sdk-54-beta#ios-26-and-liquid-gla... or https://github.com/callstack/liquid-glass
Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#14they already got caught artificially slowing older iphones on ios updates, remember that? this is a way to slow older models and get away with it.
It was a choice between two options in phones with bad batteries: - Slow down the phone so that it still works - Crash phone immediately Seems like the majority of people would've wanted option 2 for some strange reason? They did fix it by giving people the option, but I wonder how many still opted for "yes, I want my phone to suddenly just die instead of slowing down". And the fix for all this was a 50€ battery repl…
The issue was always that of communication and trust.
Communication: at no point has Apple tried to communicate "your phone's battery has gone bad, the device now suffers for it" to the user. Even though they obviously knew that this was what was happening.
Trust: with how openly anti-repair Apple was at the time, how can you trust that this was a honest oversight, and not another malicious action designed to prevent people from repairing their devices?
Apple has improved upon both since. But they're still not anywhere near perfect - and it took a lot of getting their shit kicked in by the media, the public and the regulators for Apple to get even this far.
Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#15Has anybody tested it yet? It is computed as GPU shader. I wonder if it is that less efficient compared to frosted glass blur effect that was there for at least a decade.
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Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#16they already got caught artificially slowing older iphones on ios updates, remember that? this is a way to slow older models and get away with it.
It was a choice between two options in phones with bad batteries: - Slow down the phone so that it still works - Crash phone immediately Seems like the majority of people would've wanted option 2 for some strange reason? They did fix it by giving people the option, but I wonder how many still opted for "yes, I want my phone to suddenly just die instead of slowing down". And the fix for all this was a 50€ battery repl…
> Seems like the majority of people would've wanted option 2 for some strange reason?
People want to know this is what happens. If a slow down is not communicated, the average person doesn't go "Oh, I need a new battery.". They are going to buy a new phone because their old one is slow.
Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#17Anyone else get strong GPT5 vibes from this article?
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#18Anyone else get strong GPT5 vibes from this article?
the TLDR especially
Re: Liquid Glass? That's what your M4 CPU is for
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
It was a choice between two options in phones with bad batteries: - Slow down the phone so that it still works - Crash phone immediately Seems like the majority of people would've wanted option 2 for some strange reason? They did fix it by giving people the option, but I wonder how many still opted for "yes, I want my phone to suddenly just die instead of slowing down". And the fix for all this was a 50€ battery repl…
The issue was always that of communication and trust. Communication: at no point has Apple tried to communicate "your phone's battery has gone bad, the device now suffers for it" to the user. Even though they obviously knew that this was what was happening. Trust: with how openly anti-repair Apple was at the time, how can you trust that this was a honest oversight, and not another malicious action designed to prevent…
How has Apple improved on repairability?
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#20Anyone else get strong GPT5 vibes from this article?
Yes, either the author writes like AI, or this was written by AI. Either of which are not great