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I can confirm that beta2 doesn’t bring much fixes, on the iPad, at least. In fact, it might be worse than beta1. Investigating… 😐😑
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Today, I tested my LG UltraFine 4K monitor on my wife’s Windows 11 laptop, but the monitor wouldn’t power up, and the Windows Device Manager also failed to recognize it. This means I’ll probably need a USB hub to go with my future work laptop if I want to use that monitor. I’ll probably buy a new monitor specially for my work laptop, since the company will be paying for it.
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I’m eagerly anticipating the release of beta 2 of iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 from Apple this week. I’m particularly interested in seeing how much the Liquid Glass feature will be toned down, if at all. I won’t lose faith until the public beta is available.
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I prefer Apple to build a partnership with Perplexity instead of buying them outright. By partnering with them, Perplexity would join ChaptGPT as a third-party source of AI, helping Apple remain AI agnostic. If they buy Perplexity, they would close the loop, which is bad in the long term for them. I want Apple to remain open and bring as many AI partners as possible.
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Because of iPadOS 26, I can see a future where I could get rid of my Macs and focus on the iPad as the main computer beside my iPhone. Of course, I would probably switch to a larger size if that was the case. Using an iPad with an external monitor now makes much more sense and no longer a gimmicky thing.
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So, now that we have Liquid Glass on all Apple operating systems, who lost the most of its personality? The Mac or the iPad?
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Invoking the notifications center with iPadOS 26 while using an external display will blank out the external display and bring the notifications on the iPad screen only. I’m not sure this is the final behaviour. I don’t like it at all.
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Testing iPadOS 26 with external display right now and boy this release makes the iPad THE computer we were all waiting for. Well, maybe not everybody… works really great so far.
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From 2009 to 2013, I was learning building iPhone apps as a hobbyist developer and created a few apps sold on the App Store1. This is how I learned Objective-C. It was before Swift, the iPad and Catalyst. Fast-forward to today, I wonder how my learning experience would have been if generative AI was around.
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I made about $5000 doing so. Not bad. ↩︎
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One of Liquid Glass’s foundational principles is to prioritize user content, at least to my knowledge. However, my experience so far has been the opposite: Liquid Glass is often “in your face” and takes center stage.
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There are many positive and some less favorable aspects in Apple’s first betas and Liquid Glass. I’m eager to see how much Apple will improve them before the official release. Will they remain stubborn, or will they show openness and make meaningful adjustments? How much can they change without appearing to compromise their design principles?
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Where can I find the videos of an interviewer pressing Apple executives about their strained relationship with the developer community? There is no one to be found, actually. Even Joanna Stern from The Wall Street Journal avoids this topic. It was a conference for developers! Instead, everyone focused on questions about Apple Intelligence, Siri, and Liquid Glass. Is this a lack of courage, laziness or simply being afraid not to be able to talk to Apple execs in the future? 🤔
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It appears that Apple’s Freeform didn’t get any attention in this year updates… am I missing something? Still a stunning app, though.
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I’m happy to see real windows coming to iPadOS 26 but with it comes manual windows management. Opening an app does open it full screen, but resizing is required and sometimes the resizing is guided by constant centering of the window until it is moved elsewhere. Hard to describe but it adds interaction complexity.
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Look at the Finder’s window top. 😵💫 Not exactly the best overall visual effects. As in the real world, seeing through glass can lead to weird things, just like here. BTW, CleanShot X edit window top bar isn’t working on macOS Tahoe beta1. Beware.
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In macOS Tahoe beta1 Finder, some app icons exhibit gray inset (Things icon for example in this screenshot). Weird. Speaking of the Finder, things feels janky in beta1.
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I’m curious about people’s appreciation level of Apple Liquid Glass by age group. Younger people probably don’t care or like it because it’s flashy but as they will get older they might change their mind because of the lack of readability. And by then Apple will probably be back with a more opaque design. 🤭
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The size of the OS install on iPadOS 26 was 2x bigger than on M2 MacBook Air. Surprising. Update: it’s about 2 GB less.
