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Macintosh HD Gets a New Look in Latest macOS Tahoe Beta
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Well, I believe the key thing is that this is for the operating system's root drive as opposed to any other drives you may have connected.
That this is even a thing shows how pathetic humans are in terms of what is important. Specially when you have the freedom to change the icon.🤪
It doesn’t look like any actual physical object that exists in there dimensional space
It doesn't really matter as long as it is distinctive. Phones icons don't look like modern phones, Gen-Z-ers might not recognise a floppy disc icon - and the winner mght be the UK |speed camera" sign that looks like an early 20th century bellows camera. However, they're still recognised as abstract symbols for what they represent.
Trying to make icons realistic in terms of "modern" hardware just ends up with a parade of anonymous boxes and black slabs.
It's not like you look at the new icon and think "Hey, that's a disk drive" (looks like a dialup modem ro me!).
Amazing how they used to understand "perspective".
The "design" at Apple continues to be so disappointingly bad.
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The "design" at Apple continues to be so disappointingly bad.
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Oh imagine actual 3D icons so they have a unified perspective on screen.
Privacy nightmare - but any Mac with a webcam could track the users position and set the one-point perspective relative to their eye line 😎
Long overdue. They stopped optimizing OS releases for spinning platter HDs around 2010, despite being officially “supported.”
the image in the article does no justice to how bad it actually looks
it has a weird curvature to it that makes no sense
it has a weird curvature to it that makes no sense
LOL - Third graders master perspective better than this icon. Is this really Apple?
Makes sense to change it because it is not a platter hard drive inside a mac anymore, but this icon is ugly and not the solution. Maybe something more like this
If this is supposed to visually communicate “internal SSD”, then it must have been created by Image Playground. Is it to convey “external”?? If so, when is Apple going to release an external SSD with a microSD card slot?
yeah, reminds me of how I used to try and draw buildings when I was around five years old
When will they update this icon to reflect the latest BSOD design?
Why, exactly, did they have to do something other than "because old hard drive is old"?
If this were a change being proposed for Mac OS X 10.3 or earlier, then I might agree with you because the anatomically-correct internal hard-drive icon was always a terrible design (at least compared to common alternatives, including the icon used in Mac OS 9 or earlier). But now that icon has 20+ years of being ingrained as the standard internal hard-drive icon for Mac OS. Changing it now does nothing to help with making the OS more intuitive.
No, a PCB would definitely be worse from a user-friendliness perspective, but I do agree it would look pretty cool.