The other possibility is he would have managed the development into a release with successful user scenarios. I think it short changes his management ability to think firing was the only thing he brought to the table.
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#12Yeah there needs to be more background blur but I think that would fix it.
That's not enough. What if the background is solid white, or white with few details? Blurring just leads to white-on-white.
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#13I know people hate this but it shows a huge problem: innovation in operating system design. It's really a tough one. You really want the basic functionality to be very stable and unchanging to save yourself and others incompatibility pain over the next decades. OTOH, you need to release a new OS every now and again to show the markets that you are doing something. So they did a cosmetic upgrade like changing the graphic theme. Which, depending on your PoV, might be a very good thing.
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#14I'm also pretty sure he wouldn't have released a phone with the notch.
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#15I can't get over this from Apple specifically, I offer joke about how UI/UX designers just make work for themselves but here someone was missing to call these things out.
The rounded edges are all a hodgepodge, the different levels of transparency is uncomfortable and the overall lack of coherence is really bad..
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#16I think people would probably feel less strongly about design decisions like these if their customization weren't confined to the Accessibility settings.
Same thing goes for, say, the caption settings on tvOS.
It's an interesting UX decision to always confine those settings to just that category when it's perfectly normal to change and customize settings to their own personal preference. But Apple are also big believers in only putting settings in one place, and obviously people with disabilities in particular might become outright unableto use Apple devices and software without them.
But maybe it feels like a design concessions to give people are more direct way to change your design decisions on Apple's part.
People have lots of opinions about Microsoft's designs, but most of them aren't as important when there are (somewhat) straightforward settings to tweak them.
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#17Yeah there needs to be more background blur but I think that would fix it.
That's not enough. What if the background is solid white, or white with few details? Blurring just leads to white-on-white.
It would be more grey on white than you think. It's not just Gaussian blur, they also have noise layers in the shader.
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#18My biggest complaint as a loyal Apple consumer and perhaps maybe more importantly shareholder is… What happened to one more thing? Literally all their events are bland, lacking any explosive or gasps from the crowd. Same old, minor tweaks and dumb innovation such as genmoji. Honestly who’s coming up with this crap?
The last thing Apple did that actually got people excited and real innovation was apple silicon.
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#19Yeah there needs to be more background blur but I think that would fix it.
That's not enough. What if the background is solid white, or white with few details? Blurring just leads to white-on-white.
The primary color turns dark when the background is too bright, see "Meet Liquid Glass" or "What's new in SwiftUI" from WWDC25.
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