Post #769099
2026-03-21 14:53 UTC
I bought a MacBook Air M5 (got a great trade-in price, imo).
So now I have Tahoe.
It is very ugly and very bad, as I expected. But, what bothers me in daily use is different from what bothers me in theory / principle.
One element I expected to hate (and I do, but not for the reason I thought would) is the menu icons. Much has been written and said about them.
I like them. My brain *does* see the symbol first and, I think, much faster.
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@NateBarham@wandering.shop 2026-03-21 14:53
And I hate them. Because they are inconsistent. This inconsistency is a far greater error in design than including them. Multiple different tiny gears instead of the same one always for Preferences (Settings 🙄), for example. And I hate them. Because they are best when only on *some* or *key* items, but then how do you decide which get a symbol and which don’t? And I hate them. Because the haphazard approach tells me things I don’t want to know about design stewardship at Apple in 2026. 2/