Marco Arment

Like...

the big companies all do this they make all their apps look the same and they are serving their own goal of uniformity and that again i don't think users are asking for that first of all or really benefit much from that it's in the same way that like you know apple has always in in the in the modern era apple has talked to and johnny i've talked about like unifying the platform so that you have a consistent user interface across the mac and the iphone and the ipad and like

That often does not serve those platforms or their users.

It's one of those things that to a designer or to a company's marketing and branding teams, those sound really good.

It sounds good to have a unified, consistent style.

But in most cases, the results of that suck in some unnecessary ways.

And I wish they would...

eventually maybe realize that and like and there's a time and a place for consistent branding but i think all of your icons and all of your uis are not necessarily that place because what it actually does is make the icons work worse at one of their most important jobs

no wait is this but aren't is this liquid glass icons where like if you have a light mode home screen they will have light backgrounds i don't know because i haven't like it's not out yet so i haven't run them i don't actually know how opaque they are but in in their in the media literature they've they've provided i think steve tratt and smith dug up some screenshots from some videos where like somebody had a light mode dock and they were showing like they do have so i think for now let's assume that they're that they actually might color shift um with different themes

I think it's, I mean, it mostly doesn't affect me because it's, I mean, it's a bunch of apps that I mostly don't use.

But I think anything that makes these apps more accessible to people with small budgets is better.

And this does that.

Like, you know, before, you know, you had situations like, you know, oh, you'd have to buy Final Cut Express.

You'd have to buy the small version or use some free tools or use some tools that are not like what the pros are using.

Or, you know, back in our day, just pirate all the big tools.

But I think it's harder now.

And so I don't... But at the end of the day, these tools, if you're going to buy these in the previous arrangements, they were way more money, at least up front.

And if you were just thinking like, oh, let me try to learn, say, Final Cut or Logic or whatever, there really wasn't a good path for you to go from, I think I want to try learning this, to go between that and I'm going to spend hundreds of dollars on this.

Now there's a path for that.

That's great.