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PC Gamer
Wes Fenlon

Apple's new UI for Macs and iPhones 'combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity only Apple can achieve,' but it sure looks like an awful lot like Windows Vista circa 2007

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Apple Liquid Glass messaging window.

The elite of the tech industry are unrivaled in their ability to stand on a stage and earnestly pitch you something you've seen before as stunning, groundbreaking, unprecedented. This is an important skill, because much as history repeats itself on a grand scale, design trends repeat on a cycle of 10 or 20 years or so. Skinny jeans are back, and after a few years dabbling with sharp corners and flat colors, computer interface design is ready to be translucent again.

So declares Apple with its new "Liquid Glass" aesthetic, revealed today as the centerpiece of the upcoming iOS 26 and MacOS 26—or as we called it back in the late 2000s, Windows Aero.

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