Re-watching Jobs’s introduction of Aqua for the umpteenth time, I still find it enthralling. I found Alan Dye’s introduction of Liquid Glass to be soporific, if not downright horseshitty.
But the work itself, Liquid Glass as it launched last week, is very reminiscent of Aqua a quarter century (!) ago. It’s exciting, it’s fresh, it fundamentally looks and feels very cool in general — and but in practice quite a few aspects of it feel a bit over-the-top and/or half-baked. Just like with Aqua, it will surely get dialed in. Legibility problems will be addressed.
It’s great to see Apple go down a path that gives developers the flexibility to choose whichever model they’d like, visualize changes, and roll them back as needed. Whether that’s enough to satisfy developers who have increasingly looked to third-party options to incorporate AI into their workflows remains to be seen.
The store will be in a historic building originally built for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, at the corner of Forrest Place and Murray Street. [...] To celebrate the upcoming store opening, Apple has shared a special floral-themed wallpaper.
Indigo tries to produce a natural, “SLR-like” look for photos, and it also offers a bunch of manual controls like focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance.
Apple took home the Grand Prix in Creative Effectiveness for “Shot on iPhone,” which is marking its 10th anniversary this year. The campaign by TBWA\Media Arts Lab uses the “ridiculously simple” idea, as Apple’s marketing leader Tor Myhren previously called it, to position the iPhone as the only tool needed to shoot something great.
US tech giants Apple and Meta will not face sanctions immediately for failure to meet obligations under the EU's digital rulebook, an EU spokesperson told Euronews.
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According to the spokesperson, financial penalties will not be applied automatically but only after the Commission conducts a preliminary analysis and shares its findings with the two tech giants as part of an ongoing exchange process.
News broke today of a "mother of all breaches," sparking wide media coverage filled with warnings and fear-mongering. However, it appears to be a compilation of previously leaked credentials stolen by infostealers, exposed in data breaches, and via credential stuffing attacks.
According to Tim Cook, Steve Jobs' advised never to ask "What would Steve do."
I sure hope everyone at Apple also understand to never ask "How would Jony introduce the new UI."
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