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In abstract:
- Google’s I/O promo video that includes a clear, glowing Android mascot sparked controversy over potential copying of Apple’s Liquid Glass interface design.
- Macworld highlights that Android president Sameer Samat denied the plagiarism accusations regardless of widespread consumer considerations on social media platforms.
- The controversy seems strategic given Apple’s personal consumer dissatisfaction with Liquid Glass, which required including a transparency toggle possibility.
Google has posted a promo for its annual I/O developer convention, which takes place this 12 months on Might 12. However numerous the responses are specializing in precisely the unsuitable factor: the promo video seems an terrible lot like Apple’s Liquid Glass interface aesthetic.
“Greatest. Android. Updates. Ever,” wrote Android ecosystem president Sameer Samat in a publish to X/Twitter this week. “You gained’t wish to miss it.”
Good recommendation; you by no means know what concepts you would possibly decide up. And Samat’s crew clearly didn’t miss Apple’s WWDC 2025 convention, primarily based on the accompanying video. This exhibits Android’s inexperienced robotic mascot pulling a wire and discovering that it not solely turns off the sunshine within the room, but in addition makes the robotic flip glassy, with a clear glowing look that’s extremely paying homage to the brand new designs of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, which Apple unveiled final summer time.
Commenters on Samat’s publish weren’t gradual to choose up on this similarity. “Is that… Liquid Glassdroid?” requested one. “Please don’t inform me Android goes to have a Liquid Glass look,” pleaded one other. A 3rd stated the brand new model of Android was “hopefully not [a] copy of Liquid Glass. I imply, keep unique, Android…” And so forth, and so forth.
No one likes to be accused of plagiarism, and the Android boss did his greatest to shoot down the damaging feedback. When one consumer joked “Liquid Glass confirmed,” he personally replied “Not occurring! Y’all are wild. 😂” (The crying-with-laughter emoji, after all, is the common image of “I’m not being owned. I’m in on the joke. That is enjoyable.”)
One other commenter stated: “No, don’t copy Apple with glass all the pieces, [come on] bruh.” And Samat replied: “Don’t fear. Not occurring!”
Apple has taken its lumps over Liquid Glass, and now Android followers are fearful Google is adopting an identical look.
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There have been a lot extra accusations of liquidity and glassiness. “Bro hopefully it’s not Liquid Gl(ass) 😭😭😭,” stated one. “Please don’t copy Apple’s Liquid Glass,” stated one other. A very forthright reader wrote: “Please for the love of God don’t introduce Liquid Glass!!!!! It’s shit!” However Samat, maybe correctly, determined to cease responding.
Whether or not or not it’s honest to name Google unoriginal (and keep in mind that we’ve solely seen a promo video, not the interface itself), this does look like a peculiar route to take. Apart from the pushback if customers do really feel that Google is copying its rival, Liquid Glass isn’t even a giant success amongst Apple customers. Some prefer it; others suppose it displays a flawed mindset. There have been so many dissatisfied customers that Apple needed to create a toggle to tone down Liquid Glass’s signature transparency results.
For protection of Google’s I/O convention, bookmark our sister web site Tech Advisor… which is by the way loads much less fearful about Liquid Glass plagiarism than these commenters. No matter occurs, it needs to be a tasty occasion. In reality, perhaps the promo was intentionally designed that method to generate engagement. You by no means know.