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Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

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On Jun 9, 2026 at 2:29:32 AM EDT, "Your Name" <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

And since No News Is Good News, this is all fine. Apple is wisely allowing others to dump hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars into the "AI"
black hole, with nothing in return.

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

Who cares? You can't give away Intel anything these days.
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On 2026-06-09 12:01:10 +0000, Nick Charles said:

On Jun 9, 2026 at 2:29:32 AM EDT, "Your Name" <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

And since No News Is Good News, this is all fine. Apple is wisely allowing others to dump hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars into the "AI" black hole, with nothing in return.

Apple *is* stupidly plowing billions of dollars into useless AI
gimmickry ... but has very little actual product to show for it, and
now also pays others, including Google, a lot of money to sub-license
their useless AI gimmickry instead.


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On 2026-06-08 23:29, Your Name wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features".  :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

Really?

You attended ALL the sessions, did you?
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On Jun 9, 2026 at 4:53:16 PM EDT, "Your Name" <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2026-06-09 12:01:10 +0000, Nick Charles said:

On Jun 9, 2026 at 2:29:32 AM EDT, "Your Name" <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

And since No News Is Good News, this is all fine. Apple is wisely allowing >> others to dump hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars into the "AI"
black hole, with nothing in return.

Apple *is* stupidly plowing billions of dollars into useless AI
gimmickry ... but has very little actual product to show for it, and
now also pays others, including Google, a lot of money to sub-license
their useless AI gimmickry instead.

Actually Apple is getting Google's AI stuff for free. Google pays Apple $20 billion a year to make Google Search the default on Apple everything. Apple is paying Google $1 billion a year for Google's AI stuff.

The other $19 billion from Google is more than enough to cover Apple's AI research. Assuming they are doing any at all.
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In article <1108bsb$3p6fq$[email protected]>,
Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

Venn Diagram of people who complain about liquid glass and people who
don't know what the settings app is for.
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On 2026-06-10 03:57:26 +0000, Smithwicks said:

In article <1108bsb$3p6fq$[email protected]>,
Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

Venn Diagram of people who complain about liquid glass and people who
don't know what the settings app is for.

Silly Liquid Glass originally could not be turned off nor altered -
there were no settings for it. Due to complaints, Apple quickly added a
couple of settings that let you tweak it to some degree, but still not
turn it off. The newly announced versions of Apple's OSes add further
settings tweaks, but still no way to actually turn it off.


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Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

That's not news. It came out months ago.

If that's your level of attention with Apple then maybe WWDC isn't for you.



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Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

On 2026-06-09 12:01:10 +0000, Nick Charles said:

On Jun 9, 2026 at 2:29:32 AM EDT, "Your Name" <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

And since No News Is Good News, this is all fine. Apple is wisely allowing >> others to dump hundreds of billions (trillions?) of dollars into the "AI"
black hole, with nothing in return.

Apple *is* stupidly plowing billions of dollars into useless AI
gimmickry ... but has very little actual product to show for it, and
now also pays others, including Google, a lot of money to sub-license
their useless AI gimmickry instead.

A few billion for licensing a product that actually works and meets Apple's needs is small fry compared to country level GDP numbers being spent on
little more than hope.

There's already a lot of AI in the Apple ecosystem, outside of Apple intelligence, which we don't notice. Which is how it should be.

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Smithwicks <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <1108bsb$3p6fq$[email protected]>,
Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

Venn Diagram of people who complain about liquid glass and people who
don't know what the settings app is for.

The corollary to this is the number of Apple UI gurus who haven't learned
the history of transparency effects in computer oses. It didn't work on Windows. It didn't work on linux (multiple times). It didn't work on Irix.
Why would macOS be any different?

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On 2026-06-09 21:12, Your Name wrote:

On 2026-06-10 03:57:26 +0000, Smithwicks said:

In article <1108bsb$3p6fq$[email protected]>,
 Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features".  :-(

The only bit of slightly important news is that the latest tweaked
versions of MacOS will not work on Intel Macs ... not that it's any
actual loss.

Venn Diagram of people who complain about liquid glass and people who
don't know what the settings app is for.

Silly Liquid Glass originally could not be turned off nor altered -
there were no settings for it. Due to complaints, Apple quickly added a couple of settings that let you tweak it to some degree, but still not
turn it off. The newly announced versions of Apple's OSes add further settings tweaks, but still no way to actually turn it off.

You are...

...completely wrong.
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Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The quick and easy way to rid your machine of Liquid Glass is Settings/Accessibilty/Vision/Display/Increase contrast (display
contrast set at Normal). Then it looks like a normal system.
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On 2026-06-10 14:36:30 +0000, Sn!pe said:

Your Name <[email protected]> wrote:

Absolutely nothing at all interesting at the Apple Worldwide Developer
Conference this year - no new / updated hardware, just pointless
tweaking of the awful Liquid Glass garbage and more promises about
useless gimmicky AI "features". :-(

The quick and easy way to rid your machine of Liquid Glass is Settings/Accessibilty/Vision/Display/Increase contrast (display
contrast set at Normal). Then it looks like a normal system.

Almost. There is no way to actually turn off awful Liquid Glass (even
in the newly announced OS versions), so all you can do is tone it down somewhat.

Maybe Liquid Glass will get dropped when Tim Cook actually leaves and a
new management shuffle happens, similar to what happen wwith Jony Ive's equally awful "flat" OS style after he left.

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