Backdrop-filter Memes

Apple spent millions on marketing and R&D for their "revolutionary" Liquid Glass effect, complete with fancy gradients and a whole WWDC presentation. Meanwhile, some CSS dev in their basement figured out the same thing with backdrop-filter: blur(2px) back in 2015. The best part? Apple probably has a team of engineers maintaining thousands of lines of proprietary code while web devs are out here achieving the same visual effect with literally one CSS property. This is why frontend developers have trust issues with design trends—we've been doing "innovative" UI effects with CSS for years, but slap an Apple logo on it and suddenly it's groundbreaking technology. Marketing budget: $10 million. Actual solution: 30 characters of CSS. Tale as old as time.