| ▲ | lynndotpy an hour ago | |
Yes!! I agree with this entirely. As far as I know, the best data the rest of us have is Google Trends. And based on that, it really does look like Liquid Glass elicited the largest negative reaction that Apple has ever had to an OS release. "How to Switch to Android" hit 3x its all time peak, "iPhone revert update", hit 4x its all-time peak, "iPhone slow" hit 8x its all time peak, "iPhone bad now" hit 5x its all time peak, "iPhone fix battery" hit 3x its all-time peak (and 14x its five-year peak) https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=how%20to... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=i... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2... I mostly looked at this for iOS, but searches like "macOS slow", "mac slow", "fix mac battery", "fix mac", etc. all show similar hockey-stick jumps as Liquid Glass rolled out. If this means a sudden highest-ever 10x shift in customer dissatisfaction - 1000% - then that has to have been significant. | ||
| ▲ | ksec an hour ago | parent [-] | |
There are probably other parts as well. Dissatisfaction against Apple for App Store has been high, may be for some Liquid Glass was the last straw. Omarchy had the highest number of Apple user switch to Linux. 100,000 downloads may be small numbers by Apple standards but even if half of that were developers coming from Apple Mac I think it is a pretty big shift. The worst part, intentionally or not they left macOS 26 as the last release for all the Intel user. | ||