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.”

Even the non glass icons look terrible, they include some automatic blur being applied.

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

Breaking an NDA (allegedly) is civil, not criminal

It would be a civil matter, not criminal.

Based on the article, the youtuber and an accomplice who knew an Apple employee accessed the employee’s phone while it was unattended, so technically it wasn’t intentional and more negligence. On the other hand, Apple also claims the employee failed to report previous breaches, so maybe this was the final straw.

Ahhhh yes, I remember glass Opera.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Or perhaps there was something about this guy's actions that were grossly negligent in a way that any person would agree he effed up.

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.

This comment brings me way back haha. I had to look it up because I didn't remember but it was Winterboard or Dreamboard that I used on my 3rd gen iPod touch.

Maybe. I suspect it will be much better than last time.

Processing power is much better now than in 2006. Back then it was about having some blurry transparency and lots of light beams and lens flares and shit, because it was easy to layer that over stuff. This is going to be more about refraction at the edges and clarity in the centers, with frosted looks as background when needed.

I am hopeful, it looked mostly good in the WWDC video, with only a few examples of poor legibility that hopefully will be ironed out.

I’m personally ready to move on from the flat look as long as it remains cleaner than Frutiger Aero. I miss having depth in my UI.

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

did you forget that they've been operating this way since at least the beginning of iphone?

edit: when idiots get called out they get sensitive, I guess.

Honestly I liked the way windows vista looked

Not everybody.

Apple's whole business model is creating hype around their products. And if this hype is preemptively damaged by leaking secrets that would otherwise feed the hype, they clearly are negatively affected by this. I don't say any of this is good, that's just their business model. And capitalism of course...

However, in this case here the youtuber imo didn't really reveal the product itself, but only a mockup version. Shouldn't that be even beneficial to Apple? I'd think creating all this buzz around the "leak" is just one way to try to get more hype going for them.