It was probably a cascade of people but the question is whether we all realize Apple was right or if they just implemented it wrong or if it will just take a year or two to get things dialed in (but still prepared for an AR/VR world) and then we forget it ever happened.

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internet2000 a day ago | parent | next [-]

People had the same reaction to iOS 7. They cleaned up some of the excesses over the next few years, and now the same basic concept is what people want Apple to RETURN to. They'll be fine.

	▲	layer8 a day ago \| parent [-]
		I’d still want Apple to return to an iOS 6-like design. Not the super-skeuomorphic stuff, but the regular UI with discernible controls clearly separated from content.

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aenis a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's a leadership failure. They obviously have a UI/UX dept. Those people want to be considered productive. Hence, they need to force a major redesign every now and then. Without a Steve Jobs like leader, those things will happen due to fundamental laws of corporate bureaucracy.

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alwillis a day ago | parent [-]

> It's a leadership failure. They obviously have a UI/UX dept. Those people want to be considered productive.

They had a guy who had no UI/UX experience leading the UI/UX team. He left for Meta thank goodness [1].

[1]: “Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Replaced by Longtime Designer Stephen Lemay” — https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/12/03/alan-dye-leaves...

	▲	layer8 a day ago \| parent [-]
		Stephen Lemay reportedly was a driving force behind Liquid Glass: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/15/ios-27-macos-27-no-majo...

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abirch a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Most people have forgotten Antennagate or the iPhone 4 fiasco. You're probably correct that people won't remember this in 2028

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nativeit a day ago | parent | next [-]

Because folks don’t continuously talk about something that happened 14-years ago on a device that’s been off the market for nearly as long?

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queenkjuul a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I hear the phrase "you're holding it wrong" said sarcastically all the time, people remember antennagate

	▲	internet2000 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You remember the funny turn of phrase instead of how bad the reception was in your iPhone 4, and how it ruined the experience of owning it. Because it wasn't that big of a deal in the end.