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1. Andy Carolan Mastodon 7 min later

   @zachleat Apple just won't admit that they fu*ked up.

   1. Tom Streeter Mastodon 40 min later

      @andycarolan @zachleat Apple never fails. Users constantly fail to appreciate their vision.

      A thinner phone should solve that.

      1. Andy Carolan Mastodon 42 min later

         @tom_streeter ROFL, yup. 100% lol @zachleat

   2. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later

      @andycarolan I think I see the system preference as an admission 😅

      1. Andy Carolan Mastodon 1 hr later

         @zachleat ROFL! Yes!

2. Bill Criswell Bluesky 10 min later

   This looks too pretty to pass up with my absolutely perfect eyeballs.

3. Roma Komarov Mastodon 22 min later

   @zachleat Someone in Apple, probably: “We expect that the prefers-reduced-transparency media feature will lead to fingerprinting and identifying of people using macOS 26, so we have to make it a separate unexposed toggle”.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later

      @kizu I use a 16.314159px user agent font size so everyone knows who I am

      1. Roel Nieskens Mastodon 1 hr later

         @zachleat @kizu SO THIS WAS YOU!!

         1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 1 hr later

            @pixelambacht @kizu if you have no fans, I am dead

            1. Roel Nieskens Mastodon 1 hr later

               @zachleat @kizu I have *only* fans!

               (𛰥◞𛰥)

      2. Eric Portis Mastodon 2 hr later

         @zachleat @kizu you always struck me as an em-pi-thetic guy

         1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 2 hr later

            @eeeps @kizu to be very clear pi is irrational too 😅

4. Andrew Mastodon 36 min later

   @zachleat also it just doesn't do anything???

   As far as I can tell all it does is change popup menus from "mostly opaque" to "almost entirely opaque" while leaving the quick settings chips and the dock as their old, hyper-saturated nonsense selves. They only fixed the bit that was fine

5. ▷ave Bluesky 43 min later

   I mean Apple producing a hype video about Liquid Glass and how innovative it is really shows how little innovation is actually happening these days.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      it was a needle to thread, they just missed the eye for a lot of folks (unfortunately)

6. Keenan Payne Bluesky 1 hr later

   It goes to show how much post-launch backlash Apple likely received from the Liquid Glass rollout.

   I imagine it’s separate from the Reduce Transparency accessibility toggle because many users don’t know accessibility options exist, and the first place they might look is the Display settings.

   1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky 1 hr later

      Yeah, that’s my read too — it’s saying response-to-backlash

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8. argonaut Mastodon 6 hr later

   @zachleat seems mistakes weren’t made but instead were the norm here.

   nothing about liquid glass has been handled in a way that’s simpler for the user, nor it has demonstrated to solve any real or existing problem.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 6 hr later

      @argonaut no arguments with that read from me 🎯

9. Mike Mathew Mastodon 6 hr later

   @zachleat I’m avoiding the Liquid Glass, and I’d love to fast-forward to the time when I can “turn off” Liquid Glass 🙈