Mastodawn

RE: https://tapbots.social/@mark/116281166238683651

I also quite like Liquid Glass (though implementing it at scale has not been fun).

The people most against Liquid Glass are the people who are really afraid of macOS becoming more closely aligned with iOS and iPadOS, which is perhaps why they're overindexing on the little things and silly, fixable bugs instead of talking about the larger picture — the Mac is evolving to serve a different audience makeup (wait for the Neo effect), and some people are simply going to be left behind

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Steve Troughton-Smith 1d ago

The Mac has been aligning with iOS since 2006, in fits and starts.

It's been so slow that it's often hard to notice year to year, but sometimes it makes a significant lurch forward, and people cry foul — like in design, or security, or technology deprecations, or things like Catalyst and SwiftUI, or Universal Purchase apps.

I've heard multiple Apple people call it 'iOS Developer Edition' in jest, but I'm not convinced they're joking. On this path, someday there will be a point of convergence

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Vincent Bernardi

@stroughtonsmith the only thing that matters is that the software distribution model of the mac stays open. That and letting me choose what gets containerized and what doesn’t. As long as we have that, macOS is not iOS in the best possible sense