The launch of iOS 26 and the new Liquid Glass UI last week caused a stir and mobilised the Apple Defense Force; no one liked it, and some even hated it. We reported on the iOS 26 jokes and even Microsoft's Liquid Glass jibes. There was also a train of thought that began to circulate, that had Steve Jobs still been with us, he would have hated Liquid Glass. He would have taken the designers 'into a back alley and kicked the sh*t out of them'. I'm not so sure.
The idea that if Steve Jobs were alive today, things would be better recalls a sense of nostalgia and longing for a time that maybe never existed; as Apple launches a new update, subscription model, or product, these same people sigh and hit Twitter with venom to demand the tech giant change direction.
