WWDC 2025: Why netizens think ‘Steve Jobs would have fired everyone' after Apple unveils ‘Liquid Glass' design for iOS 26
Apple Liquid Glass design: Apple's big reveal of its brand-new Liquid Glass look for iOS 26 at WWDC 2025 has sent tech circles buzzing, with X turning into the unofficial town square for global hot takes. Touted as Apple's boldest visual revamp since the flat design of iOS 7, the redesign breaks from the company's familiar clean, minimalist style. And while Apple portrayed it as a leap forward, not everyone is convinced.
Liquid Glass brings a sleek, translucent aesthetic to iPhones and iPads, with layers that shimmer and move subtly as you interact with them. It's clearly influenced by the futuristic interface of Apple Vision Pro, and with the 20th-anniversary iPhone on the horizon, it feels like Cupertino is gearing up for a new era of its ecosystem.
On stage, Apple described Liquid Glass as a design meant to 'bring joy and delight,' blending style with seamless functionality. But online? The mood was slightly different.
X was flooded with memes within minutes. 'Steve Jobs would have fired everyone,' one user quipped.
Steve Jobs would have fired everyone pic.twitter.com/UsiCu6j07u
— Greggertruck (@greggertruck) June 9, 2025
Someone else chimed in, 'We used to have standards and taste,' while others couldn't resist comparing it to–you guessed it–Windows Vista's Aero interface from the mid-2000s. Side-by-side images of Liquid Glass and Vista quickly went viral.
We used to have standards and taste. pic.twitter.com/oi9ddpIWhf
— Hardik Pandya (@hvpandya) June 9, 2025
The Windows Vista update with aero glass was a huge part of my childhood, so I'm getting serious flashbacks
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) June 9, 2025
welcome back, windows vista pic.twitter.com/1vVdEwFeZL
— Val Pieŭnioŭ (@mamkindesigner) June 9, 2025
Literally nobody:
Apple: I feel like Vista today 🥴🥴🥴 pic.twitter.com/DedmJc6UUP
— Ilya · イリア (@ilyamiskov) June 9, 2025
Even tech reviewers joined in on the scepticism. Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) summed up many developers' worries in one line: 'I'm a bit concerned with readability.'
I'm a bit concerned with readability pic.twitter.com/8XZLfzzvG2
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) June 9, 2025
More Apple iOS 26 reactions:
My 85% battery health iPhone 13 trying to run Liquid Glass on iOS 26 pic.twitter.com/zbupWb1X17
— GSX (@GigaSyntax) June 9, 2025
I love that we're back to 'ok but which of these toggles is on and which is off'?! in iOS pic.twitter.com/KQFwbPPHI4
— joshpuckett (@joshpuckett) June 9, 2025
iOS users in 26 #iOS26 pic.twitter.com/S5oCZGgXgb
— Attila (@ablenessy) June 9, 2025
I can't see anything 😅 pic.twitter.com/qqBtaibQis
— Beto (@betomoedano) June 9, 2025
This is how Apple jumped from iOS 18 to iOS 26. #WWDC25 #iOS26 pic.twitter.com/0y92MI2nsB
— b (@onlybthing) June 9, 2025
EXCITED FOR IOS 26 pic.twitter.com/Sd51rIqfKb
— kitze (@thekitze) June 9, 2025
For all designers… pic.twitter.com/iJ2HdCkfYu
— Rahul Chakraborty (@hckmstrrahul) June 9, 2025
Time for me to buy a Google pixel.
This is a Desaster. https://t.co/QwDypbBxL9 pic.twitter.com/SSA6SQ8oEJ
— Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus) June 9, 2025
liqwid glas pic.twitter.com/V1EHrfEbHr
— Casey Neistat (@Casey) June 9, 2025
But behind the jokes, the shift is very real. Apple's releasing updated APIs to help developers reshape their apps around this new design across iPhones, iPads, Watches, Macs, and even Apple TV. For developers and longtime users, it's easily the most significant UI shakeup since iOS 7 over a decade ago.
The bigger question now is whether this sleek, glassy vision will actually grow on users—or if it will be remembered as Apple's own version of Vista's ambitious, yet divisive, glow-up. With the public beta arriving in July and the full rollout set for later this year, Apple's gamble is clear: lean into the future and hope the memes die down.
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