Marco Arment

Yeah, and I believe those were all the prices they already were.

Yeah, I don't think they changed it.

These icons, some of them are not that different from what we had.

Numbers, freeform, those are not that different.

Even the Pages one, not that different.

I think the... I mean, some of them are bad.

I think Pixelmator is a terrible representation of anything.

Logic Pro, I think, looks like a robot breast from an Elon Musk movie.

And as a user of Logic, I'm not looking forward to when this is pushed on me.

But I think the entire idea of distilling the icon style down to an essence and having it be simpler, more abstract shapes, and then layering on top of that...

We want these to all look like a family.

So we're going to have them all look somewhat similarly styled and have they're all going to have the same like, you know, simple flat backgrounds, basically single color, you know, neon glass looking shape on top.

What that does by that uniformity and having them look like a part of a family that serves the corporation well.

and their branding guidelines.

But that doesn't really serve users, because what that does, when you have them all follow a very simple kind of template style, it makes them less distinguishable from one another at a quick glance.

And the entire purpose, like when you're using an app icon, either in some kind of launcher capacity, like a phone home screen, or on the Mac in the case of looking at things in the dock,

What you want, what you need, is for those icons to be very different from each other so that you can quickly and easily visually locate the app you are looking for and distinguish it from other similar apps.

Now, when companies do this thing where all of our things need to look similar, you know, all the big tech companies do this.

Google does this with all their rainbow icons that all look exactly the same.

You know, Adobe has all their weird, like, you know, letter icons for the Creative Suite apps, which this is obviously trying to rip off.