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          1. here is a thing i dislike : Android changing the standard for app icons to make them all be circles
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          i keep tapping on the wrong green circle
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        it's such a pure example of trading off usability for prettiness
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      oh, it's worse than that, even? a bit of research reveals that these are "adaptive icons", created in an attempt to formalise the process where OEMs were trying to impose branding on top of Android apps (by putting icons in squircles etc).
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    yet again, my life is made worse as a byproduct of large corporations attempting to gain control over a platform
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      an app update happened and now everything is a squircle. except one plant identifying app, which somehow escaped unscathed.
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        here's the OS X situation : 4 distinct varieties of squircle next to each other (including the rare "hard squircle"). indistinct AND unaesthetic.
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          wait, I looked more carefully... we have a whole spectrum of squircle in six icons.
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            update from the world of Android icons: they're coming for the colours next
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              ironic that after destroying the ability to recognise icons by silhouette, Google is now moving to a future where icons must be determined entirely by silhouette