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Even Apple designers hated Liquid Glass

2025-12-05 Science & Technology
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πŸŽ₯ Get the Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Videography Bundle: https://bit.ly/FridayCheckoutAP2BF2 πŸ‘‰ First 10 orders get at $100+ off + a free Mic Air, which is the exclusive Black Friday best deal! β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ίβ–Ίβ–Ί This video β—„β—„β—„ This week Alan Dye, "liquid glass guy" and design boss left Apple to move to Meta, the Samsung Galaxy Z TriFold was launched and I tried out Proton Sheets. Episode 279 This video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tfc-even-apple-designers-hated-liquid-glass β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ίβ–Ίβ–Ί Links β—„β—„β—„ Since Proton Sheets has just launched I thought it would be fun to put the links into a Proton Sheet this week so you can see what it's like. Sheetception. https://drive.proton.me/urls/W3GCC8FCXG#ybxiKnYWL1L6 β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ίβ–Ίβ–Ί TechAltar links β—„β—„β—„ https://patreon.com/techaltar Social media: https://mas.to/@techaltar https://threads.net/@techaltar https://bsky.app/profile/techaltar.bsky.social https://instagram.com/TechAltar https://discord.gg/npKQebe β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬β–¬ β–Ίβ–Ίβ–Ί Attributions & Time stampsβ—„β—„β—„ Writing & Research: Tristan Rayner Music by Edemski: https://soundcloud.com/edemski Stock assets: Getty Images 0:00 Intro 0:21 Liquid Glass guy quits 2:35 Samsung Trifold 4:00 Proton Sheets 4:41 Release Monitor 5:36 The Brief

Top Comments (10)

@tb_eest 2025-12-05

Proton Sheets not being in the open document format is a bit of a bummer.

762 23 replies
@dav1dw 2025-12-05

Dye being beloved by leadership just shows you that leadership are mostly clueless.

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@qwertyzxaszc6323 2025-12-05

The worst part about Liquid Glass is that it is computationally taxing. It wates battery life for the pleasure of being illegible. That's as bad as a design can be. Visually unappealing, unusable and wastes your battery life.

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@floppa9415 2025-12-05

THE big issue with liquid glass was that for some reason Apple subjugated everything to the Vision Pro, one of their biggest flops.

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@theniii 2025-12-05

absolutely hated liquid glass, takes longer to develop to make everything less identifiable.

298 38 replies
@McRocket 2025-12-05

Crucial to stop selling RAM to the public is the biggest news to me.

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@warlock_r 2025-12-05

The saddest part in all of this is that I've already started seeing hints of this transparent, "liquid glass-inspired" items in my Samsung phone after the update. Wtf is with these Android manufacturers and copying apple.

237 21 replies
@AzVfL 2025-12-05

Microsoft just can't stop shoving Copilot into everything 🀣🀣

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@Modikie 2025-12-05

The copilot logo on the "retro tech sweater" must be rage bait to make people talk about it more.

140 1 replies
@TheFridayCheckout 2025-12-05

Since Proton Sheets has just launched I thought it would be fun to put the links for the news articles and products into a Proton Sheet this week so you can see what it's like. Sheetception. https://drive.proton.me/urls/W3GCC8FCXG#ybxiKnYWL1L6 πŸŽ₯ Get the Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Videography Bundle: https://bit.ly/FridayCheckoutAP2BF2. You also can find the link in bio! πŸ‘‰ First 10/5 orders get $100 off + a free Mic Air, which is the exclusive Black Friday best deal!

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