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gnarlousetoday at 2:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

Apple achieved it with Mac OS X Snow Leopard. Apple then spent ~15 years un-achieving it. It started with iOS 7, and has culminated in the Liquid (Gl)ass era: a mess of unintuitive menus, terrible and inconsistent UI patterns, the lobotomite twins Siri & Apple Intelligence.

Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.


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girvotoday at 3:38 AM

> Although, surprisingly, built on top of absolutely incredible silicon.

To me that's because thats a capital E "Engineering" driven task that Product can't get their grubby little mitts on and ruin.

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Aperockytoday at 3:00 AM

It has posix shell, all is forgiven, can't complain about UI patterns that I never interact with.