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macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons

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405 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 00:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.258s | 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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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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1. 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.