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Good Morfternight friends!
Last June, Apple announced a new design system named “Liquid Glass.”
Last week, it landed with the new iPhones.
On the surface, it’s about transparency and smoother visuals. But look closer: the real shift is that the interface is no longer tied to each app. Instead of every app reinventing its own User Interface, they’re all converging on Apple’s native elements.
Yes, it’s another step in the Apple-ification of design. But it’s also a glimpse of a bigger change: apps fading into the background.
In the near future, you won’t open apps yourself—your AI assistant will. “Book me a flight to Dubrovnik, a hotel near the beach, and three gluten-free dinners.” The assistant will pick Expedia, Austrian Airlines, TripAdvisor—or whatever services match your preferences. But you won’t see those apps. They’ll just provide the skills in the background.
And the more uniform their interfaces, the easier it will be for assistants to navigate them. The output will adapt to your context: audio if you’re running, video at your desk, AR if you’re wearing glasses.
So here’s my question: is Apple’s Liquid Glass interface just a design update—or the first step toward a phone with one, radically simple app that uses all the others for you?
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