Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not just a design refresh

Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by DrBenCarson on Friday June 13, 2025 @06:54PM (#44273009)

They were already working on Windows Phone when Ballmer said that. That’s why he said it. They were targeting a lower cost segment.

Android, courtesy of being open source, was just able to move much faster

I think if they had just open sourced the OS, like Android, instead of killing it, Windows Phone could have been a decent Android competitor

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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by sheepscreek on Friday June 13, 2025 @09:31PM (#44273595)

I think so. Heck, why don’t they open source it now? Although my guess is it’s a lot of low level C++ that I wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. But I’ve been surprised before. What if they used dotnet?

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Re:Apple's Liquid Glass is prep work for AR interfaces, not ... by microtherion on Saturday June 14, 2025 @08:53AM (#44276147)

I suspect it shared quite a bit of code with the regular windows codebase, so open sourcing it would have exposed a lot of proprietary code (and not necessarily only their own — there may have been licensed bits that they would not even have been allowed to open source).

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