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Ironic that it's the 20th anniversary of this other design masterpiece:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Scree...

I don't know that a redesign was called for at all. I guess they needed to show something if Siri still isn't ready, but this is just not it.

I'd have personally hoped for them to beef up iCloud+ but I know it doesn't sell devices to the general user.

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> I guess they needed to show something if Siri still isn't ready, but this is just not it.

This certainly is not that. Like it or not, a huge multi-OS redesign is not something you rush out for a keynote because your first choice didn't pan out at the last minute.

It's not something you rush out at the last minute, but it might be something you plan a long time ahead as "our interesting stuff might not work out, so let's do a huge redesign too to be confident we can pretend to be releasing something excitingly new either way".

(I don't particularly have an opinion that this was their line of thinking, just pointing out that for a company like Apple they would have been thinking "what if X isn't ready in time" months or even years before the point of actually knowing if X is it isn't ready on time.)

That's probably driven by some kind of an AR headset. AR can't properly render solids, so it is stuck with having everything transparent. Now it won't look worse than everything else.

Because everything else looks worse instead. That's one way to solve it, I guess.

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