[_diyar]

I wonder if anybody at Apple is bold enough to lose face over this, given that there‘s a leadership shuffle underway.

[bombcar]

There's no need to lose face to the vast majority of their customers, who don't read tech blogs or know who Siracusa is.

They can just boldy advance forwarded in a rearward direction and claim whatever they want about it. They've done it multiple times - every new iPhone and iOS has looked "the best and newest" and made the last one that looked the best and newest look old-hat.

[_diyar]

> … or know who Siracusa is.

Succinctly put.

You’re right that they’ve done that before. But I only remember Jobs and Ive doing it, and they have a reality distortion field.

[joshuat]

They owned their mistake of removing all ports and function keys from MacBook Pros, so there is a chance. That being said, the UI degradation of macOS has been a slow but persistent march for about a decade now, and I don't imagine it will change now.

[lou1306]

They might manage to pin it all on Alan Dye, who recently jumped ship to Meta.

[snarf21]

I thought the person responsible was already gone...

[troupo]

People keep blaming Alan Dye as if he was the only one responsible.

Federighi—who's in charge of implementing this and was busy praising it on stage—is completely blameless. As are all other managers big and small at Apple.