you just know this guy thinks he's VERY SMART because he reads 'advanced' newspapers
EDIT: turns out he's the senior technology editor for The Atlantic
The UI is harder to parse and you have to read the tiny letters instead of the big icon to see what it is. Awful.
This was all the rage in mid-late 2000s. Remember all the phone themes you could download/buy? Cool cars, knife and blood, barbie etc.
Seems like legibility simply isn't a concern back then.
Calendar, Gmail, and maaaaybe the Wallet one are kinda' usable as icons. I guess.
Can you not position app launchers on iOS still? All my apps are in a specific location so I get to them by muscle memory anyways. All 3 that I use
You can position icons on iOS now, but I'm still using sight predominantly because there's no physical feedback on a touchscreen. Also I don't use the smart phone that much, maybe more people are like you in this case.
Android just has the home row right at the bottom so I put browser, camera, and messaging, and phone there. It's just easy to remember because they're always in those exact locations no matter which page I'm on
I simply paid an artist for 4000 well made artistically coherent icons that don't look like warped slop
It's going to be interesting watching techbros and cultural IP holders fight each other.
It makes me wonder if the techbro shift to openly hard right might be partly to them thinking they have better chances with this fight over there.
I'm not sure which is worse, the AI icons or installing websites as apps on your phone
Also the authenticator icon is pretty telling
"Oh, you don't want to download these cookies? Just click ok when it asks for the microphone and camera access"
Tbf originally (in the 90's) they were pretty harmless, mostly used just to store login information etc. but leave it to tech bros to corrupt every useful technology
Eh the icons get a pass for hitting me with the nostalgia of early iphone jailbreaking.
I read the novelization of Titan A.E. when I was like 10 and didn't know it was a movie first for the longest time
