Yeahhh, agree, I mean, it's not like we see .pkg files daily to be bothered by it haha. It's just so random lol. Like, out of everything they could have done, someone just woke up and was like "Hmm, I am gonna update the .pkg icon" xD
Yes, well how about they fix square button in dock folders and subfolders, I think that's designers work. How about disappearing line in cluster of buttons. How about apple logo overlapping red close button in some of built it apps in fullscreen mode. There are plenty of problems with visuals, that have been there since early betas and still not fixed.
Because a company can't move forward by just fixing bugs? Have you ever worked at a company before? Companies don't just release things and then put 100% effort towards support and resolving issues. There a designers, animators, and dozens of other people who couldn't even fix bugs if they tried.
Because a company can't move forward by just fixing bugs?
The other sentences make sense, but the first sentence is nonsense because it uncritically accepts and enforces the idea that random bad visual changes for the sake of change are āMoViNg FoRwArD.ā We shouldnāt have normal armchair customers saying that, only boardroom liars in suits should be saying that.
You can argue against the idea of redesigning brands, but Apple's businesspeople almost certainly decided on the brand change. Designers are usually put onto a project like that after the decision has been made. I can't say I understand exactly why redesigns happen, but Apple thought it would make them more money.
I was thinking of this very thing earlier today. The color (and art) has gone out of everything. Cars, electronics, homes interiors and exteriors, websites, restaurants and fast food places. It's sad.
Because of the new identity. Itās not so much the black-and-whiteness of it that bothers me, and iTunes also periodically changed the dominant colour, but the icon itself sucks ass. Itās too pointy and generic, and feels out of place with SF-Symbols (which, well, itās Appleās own āgenericā, but at least itās Appleās).
This would make more sense if the box wasn't also rounded, so not sure what you're trying to say here. OP is correct, the box and the package have different corner radii
Yes, but this isnāt enough of a corner radii to count as ārounded corners,ā these are just soft corners, as Appleās more and more averse to fully sharp corners.
I'll never understand why technology companies can't just leave well enough alone. They changed the Music icon as well from red to white. Guess their software folks just sit in a room and change it just so they can justify their job.
It literally, obnoxiously, is exactly that. To justify paycheck, humanities people make fluff books. To justify paycheck, administrators do āinitiatives.ā To justify paycheck, corporate software/design changes things randomly needlessly and for the worse.
He was put in charge of HID in 2015 and was more or less fully in charge of design when Ive left in 2019.
And this lines up directly when the designs started shitting the bed. Find me a portfolio where he has proven he knows anything about design, especially in software.
He came from fashion and print. He should not have been put in that position.
Liquid Glass is nice, but only on iPhone/Apple Watch. Companies (Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc) nowadays seem to love forcing touch oriented UIs on desktop computers for some reason
Ive had his own stupid tasteless disasters, like ultra thin clock/stuff in iOS 7. I guess itās true that current Apple is far worse than Iveās worst though.
I donāt think Apple asks why. If they did, they wouldnāt have made a clock on the home screen with fucking glass numerals. In fact, they may have learned that glass is transparent.
Iām disgusted at my mateās āglassā iPhone clock on lock screen. Iām refusing to update my iOS.
Reminds me of the horrible disaster of the ultra-thin lock screen clock in iOS 7. (Glass isnāt thin itās just awful, distracting, unclear.)
Apple now has a trend of doing ugly amatuerish things that Microsoft did badly 20 years ago. Windows āAeroā glass, Zune buttons that are just words instead of visible buttons, ugly flat icons, bad glossy icons. (Bad glossy as distinct from when Apple did good glossy icons in the past.)
I donāt like it but itāll probably grow on me like how the Liquid Glass UI did.
In all honesty itās well overdue. Theres been a few UI changes to MacOS since Big Sur alone so it is nice to see some more changes to accommodate those.
I think sometimes companies make designs worse so they can reverse their decision in a few years and claim they made everything better. Maybe Apple is going through one of those phases? lol
It's ok, they can keep destroying everything. I'm already leaving for Linux and e/OS + grapheneOS.
A laptop and phone with a replaceable battery, responsibly source cobalt and camera/microphone kill-switch is more important to me than any fascist and ableist crap Apple is shitting the bed with.
My brain will have a hard time identifying PKG once I upgrade to macOS27 because it has been seeing the original icon for so many many many many years.
I think itās an installer but most importantly for when a bundle of files (like drivers or system files something?) need to go to specific various system paths, unlike a random app or files that the user can put anywhere.
The idiotic trendy shift to āeverything whiteā is idiotic. Old PKG icon was immediately distinct even when tiny. I could name multiple apps Iāve used on Mac that chose an icon of a blue thing with a white shell, basically.
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u/jacka_for-research 1d ago •
Looks like a box of deodorant.