I think there was some sort of color support prior to System 7.

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Macintosh II - Wikipedia

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System 6 includes QuickerGraf (originally QuickerDraw), system software used to accelerate the drawing of color images on the Macintosh II.

Hmm. Apparently System 4 had color support, which is earlier than I expected.

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...it wasn't until two years later in 1987 that Apple introduced color with the release of the System 4 & the Macintosh II.

Here's a photo of a IIcx with a color display:

The whole update being design focused is kinda disappointing. But the Liquid Glass UI does look kinda intriguing. I'm glad to get back a little of the old Skeuomorphism of old.

Though I don't have any Apple stuff at the moment

The platform saw more than 20,000 mainland netizens express their discontent over the new design.

Halt everything!! 20k people saying things on the internet!!

Y'all don't see this?

Sorry, I really don‘t mean to be rude or hurtful, but from all I‘ve seen and I mean ALL I‘ve seen Chinese consumers have no taste whatsoever. Yes, their manufacturing has become great if they actually care about something but this argument is not about stability. What I mean is the more a company relies on the Chinese market and tailors their commodities abd luxury products around Chinese consumers, the uglier they become. Just look at European cars lately. Hideous. So yeah sorry again but I take that as a seal of quality for Apple‘s UI design.

Sure, I just don’t think it’s really that much different than what we have now. I guess I’m just indifferent to it and don’t think it’s that big of a change.

I completely agree.

I see no reason to take their criticisms seriously. Have you ever seen a chinese website?

I like the direction, but I’d need the transparency to be dialled down a bit cause the contrast is missing.

XP was “the Linux” of Windows releases…

I share the same feeling. The flat lifeless interfaces need to go.

This article really needs some illustration of what the new UI looks like, and what the old one looks like for comparison

I bet it's going to drain more power, since you have to render all the diffraction in real time...

the new one looks like shit.

you spelled Liquid Ass wrong.

If this were an optional "skin" of sorts, it would have been completely fine with me. But this is a forced redesign, and a really bad one at that. There will likely be changes before the GM release comes out, but overall I just don't like the design direction, nor the performance implications

I knew it. I knew someone would manage even the most innocuous news into a "China Bad" take.

Yeah I actually liked the whole Vista/7 era Windows looks. Didn't like anything else about Vista but that wasn't Windows Aero's fault.

And most other consumers, I would wager.

It's not just blur though, it actually refracts what's behind the element, which sounds more performance intensive than it needs to be, and sometimes it's heavily distracting, but let's not kid ourselves that this is just windows vista on a Mac, they're emulating more of the physicalities of glass than just a static shine