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> My theory is that Apple specifically wanted an effect that can’t be replicated in webviews

This makes a lot of sense to me. I was also under the impression that all these lighting effects would be rather computationally expensive. This could encourage people to upgrade devices and make it hard to replicate this design on other brands’ less powerful hardware.

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