I'm not an Apple user, but I am genuinely curious.

@nuintari I hopped off a year later, when they integrated altman.

@nuintari Honestly, last nice thing was 10.6...

@nuintari It’s not that bad, now

@nuintari I don't have a Mac. My only Apple device is an older iPad which I love dearly. It upgraded to IOS 26 and I can hardly tell what's new. I don't even use anything on it other then Libby for reading, and Netflix. Other than that all the other apps are useless. Why would I ever play games on an iPad when I have an XBOX or a PC? D'oh!

@nuintari I wish I could downgrade.

I've made it slightly less annoying by enabling the "Reduce Transparency" accessibility option, but that comes with its own drawbacks.

Other accessibility options that affect Liquid Glass in their own unique ways (and come with their own unique drawbacks): "Increase Contrast" and "Reduce Motion".

@zr40 As a person with very poor eyesight, all the screenshots and things I have read have lead me to conclude that no one at Apple gives a shit about accessibility.

@bojanlandekic Mobile gaming could have been awesome.

Instead, we got games that fall into three major, often overlapping categories:

1) Pay to win
2) Clicker
3) Idle

And even good games are just loaded full of Ads. Plants vs Zombies on Steam is a fun game. On Android, it is jam packed full of "watch an ad for this booster," bullshit.

@nuintari People often fall into the choice fallacy. The idea that a plethora of a thing means there is quality hiding and you need to search and ye shall find type of belief. Yes there are millilns of apps, but most are garbage. I don't need an app instead of a website, that's what a browser is for. Games for the most part are better on a larger screen anyway. Why would I squint? D'oh!

@nuintari @odd Doesn’t matter to me. No bid deal either way.

@nuintari I was pretty hyped about it at the start on iOS, just because it felt fresh. They ironed out a lot of problems, but it does sadly have some issues that I can’t deny.

On macOS I refused to update for a long time, yet I recently did and it‘s fine.

@nuintari Feels like a gimmick. Doesn't have any impact on usability that I can tell, thus it boils down to preference... I could think of so many practical things they should have focused on instead

@nuintari I marked "tolerating," but to be fair I'm getting paid: my work laptop is a MacBook. Without that, it'd probably be a "refuse."

@nuintari Hate it. But even more than the playschool bright color palette the thing and annoying white outlines, is that the damned watch now assigns grades for sleep like I'm supposed to be some kind of child that needs to be coerced into naptimes. Today I bought an analog watch. Soon phone, soon....

@nuintari I bloody hate iOS 26 for all it brought. Most I consider to be a regression as a UX.

@nuintari "i dont care" / "you get used to it" / its not worse than a lot of other designs they made

@bojanlandekic My thought on mobiles games is more that because the devices aren't tethered to a specific location, and have even greater mobility than a laptop, their existed a chance to create some truly unique games,

What we got in that regard is Ingress, which is just boring. And Pokemon Go, which is a truly dull game that people only play because it has the branding behind it.

As for finding useful apps, I have turned to alternatives such as Accrescent and F-Droid. Because you are right, the official stores have 800 music players, and each one of them sucks and is full of ads.

@cy From the screenshots I have seen, it does not appear to be friendly to those of us with very poor eyesight. But I'll never purchase an iPhone, so my opinion really doesn't matter.

But it makes me a bit sad that the company that talks about usability so much, appears to have abandoned accessibility in the name of, "oooh! pretty!"

@Bumblefish Grades for sleep?

Smartwatches used to be cool. I used to use the hell out of my Samsung back in the mid 2010s. My wife got me a Pixel a few years ago to replace it, and..... it is garbage. I wear it for the step counter at this point, and I am constantly telling it to stop asking me to activate a Fitbit account.

I cannot wait until the day I no longer need a smart phone for work.

I am seriously looking into The Minimal Phone.

@nuintari https://www.change.org/p/allow-ios-users-to-disable-liquid-glass-effect