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Bad Dye Job

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251 points mpweiher | 2 comments | 08 Dec 25 11:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.397s | source
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mpweiher ◴[08 Dec 25 12:54 UTC] No.46191671[source]▶

   Hardware Design:    check
   Hardware:           check
   Software Design:    check
   Software:           please!
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tobr ◴[08 Dec 25 13:03 UTC] No.46191727[source]▶
For a good while, Mac hardware was held back because of hardware design. That changed soon after Ive left. Maybe the same can happen with software now.
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euroderf ◴[08 Dec 25 13:13 UTC] No.46191827[source]▶
The healing begins with a joint HW/SW effort: bring iPhone touch ID back, and strip Liquid Glass down to the bare wood and fix it.
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tobr ◴[08 Dec 25 13:20 UTC] No.46191897[source]▶
Liquid Glass I agree with. Not sure if the Touch ID comment is intended as a joke.
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gcr ◴[08 Dec 25 13:26 UTC] No.46191960[source]▶
See there are users who like Liquid Glass, just as there are users who like TouchID. A lot of Apple’s best work turned out to be quite polarizing at the time.

iOS 7’s design language was almost universally panned, but if it were “the wrong decision,” other phones wouldn’t have adopted similar design language. Material appeared just a year later in 2014. It wasn’t bad, it was just arbitrary.

(“I like Liquid Glass! I like Liquid Glass!” I insist as i slowly shrink down into the size of a corn cob)

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1. tobr ◴[08 Dec 25 13:40 UTC] No.46192089[source]▶
On the topic of Alan Dye and the home button though, the swipe gesture interface they introduced when they removed the home button strikes me as one of few genuinely successful system-level Apple design innovations in recent years. That at least seems to have happened under his leadership. Can’t think of much else good to say about what I associate with design under him.
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2. glhaynes ◴[08 Dec 25 14:14 UTC] No.46192438[source]▶
It’s my understanding that Chan Karunamuni was largely responsible for leading the iPhone X home buttonless interface, which, I agree, is fantastic and probably the best bit of UI to come out of Apple in years. Also, the Dynamic Island, which is less impactful, but really good and clever! Anyway, he’s excited about Lemay, so I am too. https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/05/acclaimed-apple-designer-says...

Here’s a video with him discussing the iPhone X interface around its introduction in 2018 that I find fascinating https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/803/