• latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    252·
    5 months ago

    I’m sorry if it’s a dumb question, but didn’t Microsoft already do this with Vista and Win 7? And I’m pretty sure transparency has been a thing on Android for a good while now:-?

      • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        I honestly don’t even know why I’m paying attention to Apple at this point, I think it’s like digging my nail into a freshly scarred-over cut, just to tease that sting out a bit. It’s the only way in which they have ever contributed to my feeling alive.

        • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          5 months ago

          I only “follow” because whatever Apple does gets broadcast by every media outlet in existence. Also Google started blindly following Apple design since they killed my beloved blob emojis.

          • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            5·
            5 months ago

            The blob emojis were one of their best features, that’s so true! I kid you not, every single time I’ve used Slack for work, for every single company which used it, someone had already uploaded the blobs! I really didn’t understand that move, the current Smile emoji looks psychotic.

    • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      5 months ago

      i mean yes, but this is a more dynamic transperency that reacts more to backgrounds, merging/separating with other elements, etc.

      • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        01·
        5 months ago

        I mean… look, I’m genuinely not trying to be a sour asshole, but why did we need this? How is this furthering the development of smartphone tech? It’s, like… sure, pretty graphics are nice, but do we really need ray-tracing on our phones? (I know it’s not ray-tracing, but you get my point)

        • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          I don’t actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

          Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it’s just nice to have, and that’s fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine.

          But yeah, I don’t have an Apple device and likely never will, so this specific instance doesn’t matter to me.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      reading text isn’t the easiest with all the colors and blurs everywhere

      Agreed - I like the look of these things in an abstract sense, but it makes the text really hard to read. I assume hope there’s a way to disable it in accessibility settings.

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      Also not a fan of the critical UI elements being popped out into floating islands, very easy to accidentally hit underlying page content when there’s effectively zero padding around controls (on touch devices, as the ad companies have discovered by making the × icons smaller and smaller).

  • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
    124·
    5 months ago

    This is such a step back to 2005 and those glassy Winamp skins. It looks absolutely terrible. I wonder how Apple users put up with that

    • accideath@feddit.orgEnglish
      122·
      5 months ago

      I beg to differ. It’s not a „putting up with“. I don’t hate modern flat designs but if I was putting up with anything it’s that.

      Loved the translucent look back then, still love it now. Am very looking forward to the design update. Especially since the new design is not just some standard windows aero like transparency but actually has glass like refractions.

      I’m very glad we’re getting something with a little more depth again, without going full 180 to the clutter of peak skeumorphic iOS <7.

      I’m a little bit concerned about readability of text on the translucent backgrounds but on the other hand, it feels unlikely that Apple didn’t think of that…

      Edit: typo

  • trailee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    83·
    5 months ago

    Almost everything in that list of new features sounds negative to me. A few are neutral, and one might be positive depending on how it’s implemented (having the phone monitor a phone call while sitting on hold). Pretty disappointing, Tim Apple.

  • arcterus@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    Honestly, it looks kind of terrible to me. Not to mention how unreadable text is since there’s apparently no guaranteed contrast with black text due to the transparent backgrounds. I feel like I’m going crazy with all the random articles praising it.