> Good example because Liquid Glass is obviously preparing for the next paradigm shift in computing which will actually require/open up a lot of innovation on the UI front again.
Bruh, I just want to be able to read the text on my phone.
Yeah: most experiments fail and even the ones that ultimately succeed have rough edges.
That's my point about people swooning about the days of UI experimentation. There's a reason we don't do it once we figure out good solutions to problems (experimentation is hard and mostly bad).
Vista/Aero 2.0 was purely for aesthetics. Liquid Glass is obviously to enable UIs overlaid on top of uncontrolled content (i.e. camera input from the real world, or be used through fully transparent displays).
Apple really has to bite the bullet somehow here if they want to get everyone over to what they see as the next computing paradigm.
Much like transparent glass tablets in sci Fi movies, this looks pretty cool but I think makes text hard to read and gets old immediately. Is it really a compelling new paradigm?
I think if I had a really improved version of Apple vision I would still want non transparent windows that are clean and easy to read, not floating holograms with glass like distortion?
All important questions to answer and problems to solve.
It would be interesting if someone had a way to throw a couple hundreds thousand designers and developers into an environment where they have to find solutions so we could get a head start before the relevant hardware goes fully mass-market...
Right, which is why they're pushing the developer community to solve the problem on the iPhone before the next transition to a form factor that's totally dependent on this probably being solved.
I already have a physical keyboard! So what will a touchscreen do for me?
Turns out that interaction shift actually enabled a lot.
IMO any individual (like you or I) are unlikely to immediately conjure up every possible high-value idea that AR makes possible.
Not saying those ideas necessarily exist (though I suspect they do), just that your lack of imagination isn't evidence against them existing and being discoverable in the next 10-20 years.
Microsoft’s early/rushed attempt at AI (the various things called “Copilot”) does start to feel like how they lost the mobile wars. They had a tech fairly early (Windows Mobile) but utterly failed to execute on it and ultimately, allowed a competitor to dominate with a better product.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. With the sums of money involved it could end up being make or break?
> Here is my bold prediction - Microsoft will try acquire Notion within a year.
Microsoft do already have their own Notion ripoff/inspired product (Loop) though. It is a bit half-assed and the development pace is glacial so perhaps a new team behind it would be something they'd be interested in.
It's also a bit too unserious for me these days. There's always this stupid bs stuff like "my partner and I stopped having sex for 3 months and it improved our lives". That kind of crap belongs in Cosmopolitan not in a decent paper. They still have insightful stories at times but it's hard to wade through all the crap.
I stopped supporting them during the Brexit negotiations because I was sick of hearing those entitled conservatives complain that they couldn't get from us (EU) what they knew they could never have because it was just the rules.
But I recently came back to it after seeing a link to it somewhere but it seems such a hollow shell of what it was now.
> In the days before Slack and being constantly plugged in people were a lot more conscious about interrupting others and we had less interrupts. The reason we have more interrupts today is that it's just too easy to interrupt people.
So much this. Our org moved pretty quickly into organising and communicating via Teams when the lockdowns hit and people starting working from home. Moving that quickly meant that many basic things like messaging etiquette never really got thought about. Even now I'll still receive messages when my status is set to DND or receive complete junk openers like "You there?".
> If it an electrical contact in the door handle, it would be very difficult for anyone to monitor or inject other signals.
You could even take it a step further for extra safety: the door handle could have a slot that requires a specifically shaped piece of metal to be inserted. Only a piece of metal with the correct shape would allow the lock to be opened.
Bruh, I just want to be able to read the text on my phone.
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