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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

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405 points Bogdanp | 5 comments | 26 Aug 25 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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bapak ◴[26 Aug 25 01:38 UTC] No.45021304[source]▶
To me it's insane to pick on these 4 icons when it's obvious that they were just bolted on together in the previous version as well. Now suddenly a whole Mac Pro laid on top of 2 tools is supposed to be a "great icon by Apple"? Get outta here.
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lapcat ◴[26 Aug 25 01:43 UTC] No.45021329[source]▶
> Now suddenly a whole Mac Pro laid on top of 2 tools is supposed to be a "great icon by Apple"?

No, Gruber said, "I don’t think the old icons for these apps from MacOS 15 were particularly good"

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bapak ◴[26 Aug 25 02:08 UTC] No.45021496[source]▶
Correct, then why suddenly the replacements are "dead canary"? The post doesn't make sense. To me they're an improvement, even if a bit flat (flatness we've seen 12 years ago in iOS 7 already)

To me this post sounds like a typical "Steve Jobs wouldn't do this" nonsense.

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dijit ◴[26 Aug 25 02:56 UTC] No.45021789[source]▶
"This was not great, but this is worse: clearly nobody is paying attention" is, actually, valid criticism.
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1. bapak ◴[26 Aug 25 05:29 UTC] No.45022603[source]▶
Call me when macOS Tahoe is out of beta. Nobody is paying attention because the post is judging a beta product that literally has not completed the QA cycle.

By all means there are plenty of things to judge in macOS and there have been for a very long time. These for icons today are not it. The canary has left a very long time ago.

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2. wpm ◴[26 Aug 25 05:34 UTC] No.45022645[source]▶
Tahoe will be out of beta in like 4 weeks.

Do you really think there are going to be significant UI design changes in that time? Beta 8 came out today and Beta 9 will probably be or be close to the RC.

3. jurip ◴[26 Aug 25 06:17 UTC] No.45022889[source]▶
A public beta period is for receiving feedback from developers and customers.
4. troupo ◴[26 Aug 25 06:44 UTC] No.45023085[source]▶
Beta is not an excuse for shoddy workmanship. Beta is to figure out the last outstanding issues and bugs before shipping to production, not to hastily fix a ton of obvious issues, or to redraw icons
5. lapcat ◴[26 Aug 25 12:03 UTC] No.45025358[source]▶
macOS Sequoia was released Monday September 16, 2024. The likely release date of macOS Tahoe is Monday September 15, 2025. That's only 20 days from now. Those icons have already been redesigned in Tahoe. What do you expect to happen in the next 20 days? There will maybe be one final beta.