@bloor Audiophiles can be some of the most gullible people on the planet.

@stefano A solid half of the side gigs I have been doing lately have been to unfuck AI messes with actual solutions.

@nemeciii Well that is gonna fucking sting....

@phranck I think the message from the comments and the poll results is fairly clear. Liquid Glass is more about eye candy than functionality, and people want functionality first.

I'm not an Apple user, largely because I find their UI/UX to be intolerably intrusive, so my opinion counts for very little. But I was genuinely curious what the numbers would show.

This is my idea of a usable, and quite lovely UI/UX:

@josh @phranck This seems common, "I need security updates, so I got an awful UI/UX."

@jwildeboer The batteries in my 14 year old hybrid have shown no change in efficacy since I bought it. So, this does not surprise me.

@Bumblefish It'd probably score me about a 55%. I woke up at least three times last night, plus I tossed and turned for what seemed like hours.

@paride5745 Wait, does LG exist on MacOS as well? I don't stay on top of Apple products, I thought it was just an iOS thing.

Frack, I'm about to get issued a company issued machine, and my choices will probably be Windows 11 or MacOS. I don't like either, but I'm even less thrilled about MacOS if it is just going to be hell on my eyes.

@karhutar No idea, not my ecosystem.

@alexanderdyas I literally have no stake in this issue. I've just heard so much bitching about LG, I thought I'd ask. I've never owned an Apple product, I'm not about to start now.

@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.

@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!"

@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.

@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.

@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.

I'm not an Apple user, but I am genuinely curious. Does _anybody_ like Liquid Glass?