I loved the part where you explained why there was any objective reason to not change it.
WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
> In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. Trying to ditch twitter and tweets. I’ve yet to hear any normal person call it X yet. Which kind of proves your point.
The overwhelming majority of people I know in real life haven't actually been on the platform for years, if they ever were, and some of those have used X by default in the rare case in comes up. It's slowly changing, but was quickly dying before Trump and Elon got their hands on it. Mileage may vary, but I imagine there's an association between Twitter still being the old place where tired millennials shout about not…
But what do they do on X?
Reading tweets or (re)tweeting.
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#53This is the kind of thing actual users do not care one bit about. And neither will the nerds after a few months with it either. Apple should spend time improving the design in meaningful ways (there is a lot of work they still need to do before shipping this) rather than wasting time on a minor change to the Finder icon.
I installed the beta immediately yesterday and didn't notice until this post. I've been using Macs for 20 years.
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#54In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. The friendly finder logo is such an essential part of MacOS that it's bizarre (at least to me) that they've changed the color symmetry of the face. Why would you do that? It's as iconic as the Apple silhouette for Apple users. If you've ever used MacOS, you've had that face stare back at you. It's a kind face. A friendly…
> Why would you do that? TBH, it's better if this new generation of Apple's UI designers waste their energy on such trivialities instead of trying to "improve" Finder features (not that Finder is all that great to begin with though). Let them tinker with icons, fonts, colors and "evoking emotions" all day long, at least then they don't break any actually important stuff.
Indeed. I was relieved after reading that alarming click-bait title that it boils down do something entirely inconsequential.
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#55In the age of X ditching Twitter and Tweets, I think brand continuity and identity is underrated. The friendly finder logo is such an essential part of MacOS that it's bizarre (at least to me) that they've changed the color symmetry of the face. Why would you do that? It's as iconic as the Apple silhouette for Apple users. If you've ever used MacOS, you've had that face stare back at you. It's a kind face. A friendly…
it's creepy not friendly (especially now, as I somehow never consciously noticed that it's a dead forever smiling face), the new one simply looks amateurish and bad.
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#56If they really want to improve MacOS they should add synonym based search in Settings. I should not be forced to know by heart the arcane speech their marketing department chose to replace consecrated terms. Just today it took me 5 minutes to unearth the Speech Rate settings. It feels like using Siri and not knowing the magic words. Come on Apple, synonym matching is easy. Just use a LLM to generate synonyms to all t…
synonym search is also easy without an LLM
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#57The entire UI redesign of "liquid glass" looks horrible in its current state. Right now the readability factor on iOS is at an all time low. It feels like a change just for the sake of change. How is it better?
Maybe it's a subtle way to punish non-native apps that recreate UI elements, but do not use SwiftUI. The user gets used to the native way of UI elements and everything else will look odd after a while, forcing developers to ditch everything that isn't truly native.
Sorry to burst your bubble but users literally do not care "how native it looks" other than the vocal minority online. Never ever heard any non-technical user complain that Spotify does not fit in.
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#58The old Finder logo is a clever ambiguous image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_image
The new Finder logo has so much meaning symbolically for me. It actually has a very ugly meaning to me.
I felt that it is the end of the road for me. My first Mac was a Powermac 7300/200.
btw, nobody ever mentioned that the red close button is next to the minimize button. This is similar to the close button being next to the maximize button on Windows. Just reversed.
On Mac OS classic the close window button is on its own. I really miss Mac OS classic.
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#59I wish it would break history and let Spotlight and show me the path for the file it has found. Is it 2023/accounts.xlsx or 2024/accounts.xlsx or 2025/accounts.xlsx? Who knows!
The fun part is that Spotlight used to do this, but they progressively made it worse year after year. It became completely unusable for me maybe a couple of years ago and switched to Raycast, which I use exactly like I used to use Spotlight in 2010 and nothing more.
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#60The entire UI redesign of "liquid glass" looks horrible in its current state. Right now the readability factor on iOS is at an all time low. It feels like a change just for the sake of change. How is it better?
You might be on to something about change for change's sake. I mean you have a large design team at Apple. Do you expect them to sit on their hands for years and years?