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  • macOS 26 says goodbye to the classic hard drive icon

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    mpantone said:
    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..
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  • Google mocks Apple's AI delays while standing in a graveyard of late and abandoned product...

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    VictorMortimer said:
    Apple's own fault for hyping garbage.

    Apple figured out - too late - that it's impossible to get a LLM to not hallucinate.  And sometimes, like doing cute pictures in Image Playground, that's not a huge problem.  But it's always going to give you garbage search results, and that can be a HUGE problem.
    If you follow the evolution of LLM technology, you'll see that Apple is openly contributing to the advancement of the tech in ways that directly address the current known issues, such as hallucinations. The very reason Apple -hasn't- released this tech to its users should be seen as a strength, not a weakness. We should be applauding them for their restraint. Patience pays off.
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  • Apple's AI brain drain continues as fourth researcher goes to Meta

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    Good riddance. Loyalty means something, and Apple doesn't need anyone non-committed filling its ranks.


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  • Apple still effectively blocks rival browser engines on iOS despite EU order

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    How does a competing "browser engine" help me as a consumer when all of the value-added benefits of competing browsers is the rest of the stuff?

    Is it the extension support in Firefox? Extensions won't work in Firefox on iOS when WebKit is the browser engine? That seems like a stretch.

    Competition is good, but this seems like an odd battle. For years. Firefox had a sub-standard (slow and bloated) browser on Macs. Where was the wolf cry over that disconnect?

    There's nothing inherently wrong with WebKit. It is a near-equal engine alongside the other majors. So what are the major issues at stake?
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  • Trump Mobile drops false 'made in America' promise

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    I really wish I could get inside the heads of some Trump voters and know how they -really- feel about this running comedy show... Junkware. Not "Great".
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