I remember when the iPhone 4 leak happened because of that phone prototype that got left behind. Everyone felt really bad for the guy, and it was widely believed that it was completely by accident.

Breaking an NDA (allegedly) is civil, not criminal

Transparency is fine if it's used for stuff like the background of a window, since you'd want tod emphasize that anyways but I have to agree that using it for icons hurts usability so much.

I’ve unironically seen both positive and negative reactions from people.

Microsoft changing Outlook from gold to yet another blue blob. Google changing every single goddamn app to use the same red/yellow/green/blue pallet. And now this bullshit.

The icons in the article aren't even the default behavior. Mine all still have color. At least on the home screen and app drawer. The control center icons are translucent but those barely had any style before. And crucially, wifi, bluetooth etc buttons still have color to indicate status.

From the article, if you read it, you will see it was not willful at all:

The full complaint, posted by MacRumors to Scribd, outlines Apple’s version of events. Ramacciotti was friends with an Apple employee named Ethan Lipnik, who had an iPhone running an in-development version of the next-generation version of iOS. Allegedly at Prosser’s direction, Ramacciotti gained access to this phone while Lipnik was away from home and used FaceTime to call Prosser and show him the new software design.

“Defendants’ misconduct was brazen and egregious,” says Apple’s filing. “After Mr. Prosser learned that Mr. Ramacciotti needed money, and that his friend Ethan Lipnik worked at Apple on unreleased software designs, Defendants jointly planned to access Apple’s confidential and trade secret information through Mr. Lipnik’s Apple-owned development iPhone.”

Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.

Kinda reminds me of Windows Aero, but with Grey as your main colour.

I'm on the fence, it's nicer than material design (I've always hated 'material design' though) but it's so colourless.

Bring back skeuomorphism!

I've set my Android to the Glass icon pack. It kinda looks okay if the background is very blurry and featureless. Try setting a busy vacation pick as backdrop and you won't find any of your apps again unless you set the icons to a size normally reserved for the visual impaired.

Yep, when every app has a gray color, it’s much harder to find what you’re looking for on the screen.

Google committed the same sin when they made every one of their apps have the same four color look - now I can’t easily find the one app I’m looking for.

I’m on the beta. And I started hating it, then went to disliking it to simply not preferring it.

Being in beta, they are still making tweaks. I think, somewhat unexpectedly, the final build will be kinda nice.

Windows Vista, is that you?

It’s such an apple thing - “revolutionize” something that already existed

Ahhhh yes, I remember glass Opera.

If it comes with the bubbles screensaver, I'm in

they’re still trying to teach Scotty how to use the computers. Siri still can’t understand him.

The article says Apple claims the employee failed to report previous breaches, so maybe it’s the last of multiple strikes.

This time it was a willful and intentional leak (at least if you believe the article's version of the events), whereas the guy who left the prototype at the bar was a complete accident. It's not surprising to me that Apple would fire someone who intentionally leaked something. As for the guy who left the phone at the bar, I guess it depends on how careless and negligent you think that was.