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> These effects are GPU-accelerated, composited in real time, and built into the OS rendering stack Sure but it's never gonna be faster or lower-energy than not doing it
My favorite example of the ridiculous icon redesigns remains this one: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510 What fascinates me the most is not how bad the most recent one is, but how it now relies on you knowing the prior forms of that icon to know what the current one is conveying. Apple fans actually point this out as an artful homage, but to anyone not already steeped in Apple products, it's j…
> These effects are GPU-accelerated, composited in real time, and built into the OS rendering stack Sure but it's never gonna be faster or lower-energy than not doing it
Meanwhile the same people complaining about the energy intensity of their phone ui are the same people who refuse to use cheap foodstuffs like canola oil and instead demand exotic things like avacado oil. Come on bffr
My favorite example of the ridiculous icon redesigns remains this one: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510 What fascinates me the most is not how bad the most recent one is, but how it now relies on you knowing the prior forms of that icon to know what the current one is conveying. Apple fans actually point this out as an artful homage, but to anyone not already steeped in Apple products, it's j…
I am struck by how great the "@" sign was as a perfect (and currently applicable) synecdoche for contact information.
Just how is this NOT just a fresh coat of paint? It is precisely the same controls, providing precisely the same effects, but looking different.
And probably requiring just a little more attention and thought to actually use - so the device becomes slightly more of an attention trap/sink :(
This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle". Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel…
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Meanwhile the same people complaining about the energy intensity of their phone ui are the same people who refuse to use cheap foodstuffs like canola oil and instead demand exotic things like avacado oil. Come on bffr
Thats because canola oil is objectively terrible for your health and will make you die young. Jury is out on avacado oil but for cooking, its tallow, butter and cocount oil if you want to avoid burnout and premature aging.
https://www.heart.org/en/healthy-living/healthy-eating/eat-s...
My favorite example of the ridiculous icon redesigns remains this one: https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115072885331562510 What fascinates me the most is not how bad the most recent one is, but how it now relies on you knowing the prior forms of that icon to know what the current one is conveying. Apple fans actually point this out as an artful homage, but to anyone not already steeped in Apple products, it's j…
I am struck by how great the "@" sign was as a perfect (and currently applicable) synecdoche for contact information.
> These effects are GPU-accelerated, composited in real time, and built into the OS rendering stack Sure but it's never gonna be faster or lower-energy than not doing it
Meanwhile the same people complaining about the energy intensity of their phone ui are the same people who refuse to use cheap foodstuffs like canola oil and instead demand exotic things like avacado oil. Come on bffr
No they’re not.
This type of "innovation" feels like a skit from the Silicon Valley TV show. That and Apple's patented "squircle". Give me the vintage MacOS and Vista designs from the article over whatever the new fad of UI they keep trying to shove down our throats. It was flat UI before, now glass again but this time with raytraced refractions, so we waste compute power to get the glass buttons to look more realistic if you pixel…