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WWDC 2025: Why netizens think ‘Steve Jobs would have fired everyone’ after Apple unveils ‘Liquid Glass’ design for iOS 26

WWDC 2025, Apple Liquid Glass design: Liquid Glass brings a sleek, translucent aesthetic to iPhones and iPads, with layers that shimmer and move subtly as you interact with them.

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Apple Liquid Glass design: Apple’s big reveal of its brand-new Liquid Glass look for iOS 26 at WWDC 2025 has sent tech circles buzzing, with X turning into the unofficial town square for global hot takes. Touted as Apple’s boldest visual revamp since the flat design of iOS 7, the redesign breaks from the company’s familiar clean, minimalist style. And while Apple portrayed it as a leap forward, not everyone is convinced.

Liquid Glass brings a sleek, translucent aesthetic to iPhones and iPads, with layers that shimmer and move subtly as you interact with them. It’s clearly influenced by the futuristic interface of Apple Vision Pro, and with the 20th-anniversary iPhone on the horizon, it feels like Cupertino is gearing up for a new era of its ecosystem.

On stage, Apple described Liquid Glass as a design meant to “bring joy and delight,” blending style with seamless functionality. But online? The mood was slightly different.

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X was flooded with memes within minutes. “Steve Jobs would have fired everyone,” one user quipped.

 

Someone else chimed in, “We used to have standards and taste,” while others couldn’t resist comparing it to–you guessed it–Windows Vista’s Aero interface from the mid-2000s. Side-by-side images of Liquid Glass and Vista quickly went viral.

 

 

 

 

Even tech reviewers joined in on the scepticism. Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) summed up many developers’ worries in one line: “I’m a bit concerned with readability.”

 

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But behind the jokes, the shift is very real. Apple’s releasing updated APIs to help developers reshape their apps around this new design across iPhones, iPads, Watches, Macs, and even Apple TV. For developers and longtime users, it’s easily the most significant UI shakeup since iOS 7 over a decade ago.

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The bigger question now is whether this sleek, glassy vision will actually grow on users—or if it will be remembered as Apple’s own version of Vista’s ambitious, yet divisive, glow-up. With the public beta arriving in July and the full rollout set for later this year, Apple’s gamble is clear: lean into the future and hope the memes die down.

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