alt Hacker NewsHe would've not let the abysmal slop like iOS 26 UI to ship ever.
Some things he didn't appear to care much about, the polished UX was his schtick.
He would've not let the abysmal slop like iOS 26 UI to ship ever.
Some things he didn't appear to care much about, the polished UX was his schtick.
I am 100% sure that Steve Jobs could have shipped a broken Czech keyboard if that was in pursuit of some random abstract like purity or minimalism. "iOS keyboard has too many keys. Reduce keys make them larger. People should not use these obscure symbols anyway". (extrapolated from a couple of biographies and a couple of books on 1980s Apple I read, this is very consistent with his character).
As for iOS 26, no reasonable person would have let it ship. From one source (John Gruber -> "Bad Dye Job") the previous head of Apple's UI design team who lead the UI team was just not a UX designer, he was just a visual designer or something. I think it shows.