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Having a floating @relog widget above my fish tank that shows when I last fed my fish has been a pipe dream of mine since VisionOS was announced.

Today, I was able to accomplish just that with zero work on my end, thanks to Vision 26 supporting widgets 👀

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The metro UI was a forced major interface change that was terrible experience on Windows (8). It was put in place to bootstrap a mobile app ecosystem for Windows Phone at the expense of Widows (desktop) users.

What #Apple is doing is more benign, mostly altering the appearance in a fairly minor way (afaik). However, they are doing it so that apps designed for #iOS and #macOS default to being compatible with #visionOS with little to no extra effort by app developers. That is, bootstrapping the ecosystem on that platform. That’s the similarity to Metro.

The question is how much of a setback in usability and appearance will this be for iOS and macOS users for the benefit of this goal. We’ve already seen a big regression in Mac apps for iOS convergence. And what happens if #VisionPro continues to flop and we all forget about it, but we’re stuck with its design language?