Apple still cares about detail. Isn't it refreshing these days?

Let's not pretend Apple didn't get itself into trouble with its new design direction, Liquid Glass. The first version was strikingly beautiful - and often just as unusable in a real digital environment (Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26).

Getting it right took a long run of iterations across the developer and public betas, and the fixing and tuning continues today - you could see it at this year's WWDC 26 with the introduction of iOS 27 (Apple is tweaking its controversial Liquid Glass design). But what deserves credit is how typical it is of Apple not to walk away from the iterations. Microsoft did exactly that - and in corporate life we still have to live with their design flaws, to the point where it has somehow become the accepted norm.

Apple, thankfully, is still a company that will spend several minutes of its keynote celebrating equally rounded corners.

And in times when people mistake AI tools for a pickaxe, that's still good news. Details still matter, especially in the things you interact with several times a day. That obsession with detail is what pushes builders of all kinds to use even the new tools properly - not to settle for "better done than perfect". Even though we all know the real world lives somewhere in between.

Oh, and by the way - when was the last time you heard about massive layoffs at Apple connected to AI automating creative work? :)