My gods it's so fraking hilarious seeing you chucklefcks complain about something so stupid and mundane and completely irrelevant to how a Mac works as finder icons.
This attitude will not get you anywhere important. Being mediocre won't help you achieve excellence or greatness.
The people who worry about the details (after getting the basics correct) are the ones who have a chance of creating something truly great: the Mona Lisa, a Michelin 3-star restaurant, haute couture, even something as commonplace as a videogame (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild comes to mind).
As Mies van der Rohr said, "God is in the details." If you don't understand why it is used in this discussion's context, you don't know anything about Apple, Steve Jobs or probably anything about consumer goods.
There's a reason why entry level Toyotas and Hondas seemingly run forever. Someone has to care about the details, even in a mass market vehicle like a Corolla or Civic. And what about the companies that didn't care about the details in sub-compacts? GM, Ford, Chrysler all basically gave up this entire market segment to exports in the Seventies.
You probably have never left your mother's basement but there are places on this planet where even modest workers care about doing something a little better, worrying about the details.
If you don't care about the details, you get American public transit. If you care about the details, you get Swiss and Japanese public transit. There's no surprise that McDonald's in Japan blows doors on McDonald's stateside, even on identical menu items.
Steve Jobs -- perhaps more than any American CEO since WWII -- cared about the details. When Apple loses sight of this, you know the company culture has changed. Perhaps you think it is for the better but I assure you that quality doesn't come from a "satisfactory is sufficient" attitude.
Remember that this is not exclusive to PC operating systems or consumer electronics. It pertains to everything humans do and make.
This ham-fisted drive icon might seem unimportant. But in fact it's one of the things you will see every single time you log into your Mac. Like I wrote before, Steve NEVER would have let this get approved. Let's just hope that this was a one-off mistake and not the beginning of a trend.
Goddam, what has happened to Apple’s graphic design? That thing is truly horrendous. As others have noted, why is the perspective all wrong? It doesn’t even look like anything.
I’d rather keep the old technology spinning magnetic hard drive than this new seemingly AI slop. At least the old one looks good and has nostalgic value.
Why does it look like it shifts perspective midway?
It's because Apple didn't depict the "drive" realistically. There are a couple of problems with the new icon.
The Apple logo is presented as though it is on a flat two-dimensional surface with no foreshortening. If you look at the traditional hard drive icon on the left, the circular spindle bulge is an oval.
Worse the "drive" on the right has parallel sides. The old HDD icon on the left has tapering sides, more properly depicted using vanishing perspective. Apple could have gotten away with the "flat" logo had they used proper perspective on the actual silver enclosure itself (like all the icons in the IconFactory window grab provided by theralsadurns.
The new and "improved" icon is an example of really poor draughtsmanship. Plus there's nothing that really says "I am a disk drive." It looks like it could be a (inept) sketch of the unreleased iPod shuffle 3.
Let's hope the rest of macOS 26 isn't full of equally bad design. Somewhere on this planet Jony Ive is silently smirking. And Steve never would have let this happen on his watch.
It's a terrible icon! I understand moving away from a spinning hard-drive icon, but this is not a better replacement. It looks like an external drive case, and that perspective... what are they thinking? Bizarro..
Goddam, what has happened to Apple’s graphic design?
OMG, they aren’t listening to anonymous yahoos on the internet? OMG, get the fire extinguisher for all the trolls and children with hair on fire, OMG!!
I can see a change to an SSD making sense, but an SSD in a case just looks like a bland rectangle like this icon, and a bare one just looks like it could be any chip on a PCB, there's nothing distinctive to work from. Even the old hard drive icon looks like a special fancy hard drive. Something else!
A new SSD icon to replace the old HD one is long overdue. But this new one is just not what we normally expect from Apple. Perspective is wrong, like others pointed out. And it doesn't look like an internal SSD either. When you have multiple drives, the icon should be able to help you to quickly distinguish the internal and external ones.
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The people who worry about the details (after getting the basics correct) are the ones who have a chance of creating something truly great: the Mona Lisa, a Michelin 3-star restaurant, haute couture, even something as commonplace as a videogame (The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild comes to mind).
As Mies van der Rohr said, "God is in the details." If you don't understand why it is used in this discussion's context, you don't know anything about Apple, Steve Jobs or probably anything about consumer goods.
There's a reason why entry level Toyotas and Hondas seemingly run forever. Someone has to care about the details, even in a mass market vehicle like a Corolla or Civic. And what about the companies that didn't care about the details in sub-compacts? GM, Ford, Chrysler all basically gave up this entire market segment to exports in the Seventies.
You probably have never left your mother's basement but there are places on this planet where even modest workers care about doing something a little better, worrying about the details.
If you don't care about the details, you get American public transit. If you care about the details, you get Swiss and Japanese public transit. There's no surprise that McDonald's in Japan blows doors on McDonald's stateside, even on identical menu items.
Steve Jobs -- perhaps more than any American CEO since WWII -- cared about the details. When Apple loses sight of this, you know the company culture has changed. Perhaps you think it is for the better but I assure you that quality doesn't come from a "satisfactory is sufficient" attitude.
Remember that this is not exclusive to PC operating systems or consumer electronics. It pertains to everything humans do and make.
This ham-fisted drive icon might seem unimportant. But in fact it's one of the things you will see every single time you log into your Mac. Like I wrote before, Steve NEVER would have let this get approved. Let's just hope that this was a one-off mistake and not the beginning of a trend.
I’d rather keep the old technology spinning magnetic hard drive than this new seemingly AI slop. At least the old one looks good and has nostalgic value.
It's a terrible icon! I understand moving away from a spinning hard-drive icon, but this is not a better replacement. It looks like an external drive case, and that perspective... what are they thinking? Bizarro..