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teruakohatu on June 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple introduces a universal design across platfor...

Looks like Apple (re)discovered Sun's Project Looking Glass from 2003.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Looking_Glass

Liquid Glass looks a lot like coming up with changes for the sake of them.

ch_sm on June 10, 2025 | [–]

Oh cool, I had forgotten about this project, thanks for posting it! This is the first time I’ve noticed that they had the perspective "glass table" style dock that Apple used a couple of years later in Mac OS X Leopard.

robertoandred on June 9, 2025 | [–]

I think they (re)discovered Mac OS X from 2001.

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