you just know this guy thinks he’s VERY SMART because he reads ‘advanced’ newspapers
EDIT: turns out he’s the senior technology editor for The Atlantic
The UI is harder to parse and you have to read the tiny letters instead of the big icon to see what it is. Awful.
This was all the rage in mid-late 2000s. Remember all the phone themes you could download/buy? Cool cars, knife and blood, barbie etc.
Seems like legibility simply isn’t a concern back then.
Calendar, Gmail, and maaaaybe the Wallet one are kinda’ usable as icons. I guess.
Can you not position app launchers on iOS still? All my apps are in a specific location so I get to them by muscle memory anyways. All 3 that I use
You can position icons on iOS now, but I’m still using sight predominantly because there’s no physical feedback on a touchscreen. Also I don’t use the smart phone that much, maybe more people are like you in this case.
Android just has the home row right at the bottom so I put browser, camera, and messaging, and phone there. It’s just easy to remember because they’re always in those exact locations no matter which page I’m on
X
Lol
Bazingas keep trying to make Le Epic X happen. It’s not happening.
I simply paid an artist for 4000 well made artistically coherent icons that don’t look like warped slop
It’s going to be interesting watching techbros and cultural IP holders fight each other.
It makes me wonder if the techbro shift to openly hard right might be partly to them thinking they have better chances with this fight over there.
Nah, they’ve always been mostly ancap nerds
the twitter kermit trying to make a swastika with his arms
Probably should be crawling into the sewer, not out of it
The Atlantic
home of “child-killing can be legal”
When are we getting Gestapo Kermit Authenticator emoji?
:ukrainian-kermit: or… :ghost-of-kiev:
I’m not sure which is worse, the AI icons or installing websites as apps on your phone
Also the authenticator icon is pretty telling
It feels like voluntary supplication to the techbros in a “notice me senpai” way. I go out of my way to ignore/bypass as many bazinga tracking devices as possible.
“Oh, you don’t want to download these cookies? Just click ok when it asks for the microphone and camera access”
Even calling them “cookies” set off all my internal alarms early on. “Teehee this quirky unspecified download is yummy and you should have it. TAKE IT. TAKE IT NOW.”
Tbf originally (in the 90’s) they were pretty harmless, mostly used just to store login information etc. but leave it to tech bros to corrupt every useful technology
pretty harmless, mostly used just to store login information
That was enough for me to dislike them then. “Gator” and “Bonzi Buddy” even back then proved my dislike was called for.
Behold, we found a twitter user that actually tries to call it Le Epic X.
Eh the icons get a pass for hitting me with the nostalgia of early iphone jailbreaking.
The Drej Tank keeps winning.
I read the novelization of Titan A.E. when I was like 10 and didn’t know it was a movie first for the longest time
The “dudebro steal car drive fast vroom vroom” trend had just started when that movie came out and stole away its target audience (people my age at the time), so I was one of the few that really loved it because “dudebro steal car drive fast vroom vroom” was very boring to me.
soooo
