The old icons were better

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Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 234d (2 replies)

I prefer the icons from this true smart phone

RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 234d (1 reply)

I had the Treo 650 and I still miss it.

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 234d

still got mine, and the 600. best and TRUE smartphone to exist before it was even a term.

DmMacniel@feddit.org · 18 pts · 234d (4 replies)

Skeumorphism was better in every way.

Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 17 pts · 234d (3 replies)

We just need to update them for the modern times. For save the icon would be a storage datacenter. For dialer it would be an nsa data center. For browser it would be a google ai data center.

Karmmah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 234d (2 replies)

Just replace every icon for modern software with a robot head representing AI that was crammed in there. Maybe adding different colors is also fine.

ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 234d
jimmux@programming.dev · 2 pts · 234d

Don't give them ideas. I can see marketing people getting very excited at the concept of apps with distinct personalities. Suddenly the calculator on your phone is replaced with "Ask Eugene".

Greg@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 234d

lol, the phone app was called dialler because at the time it didn't make sense to have a phone app called phone.

Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 234d

Ok this might sound insane, but my dad had a razr I would borrow sometimes and the plastic had such a unique smell. And then I had a little moto glider that also had a super plasticky smell, but not as strong as the razr.

Seeing these icons gave me such a trip back to that era and that smell. I feel like I need to go change my shoes or something because I've stepped into another life.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 234d

It's funny how icons back then were rendered with the detail of a renaissance painting, and now that we have hidpi displays, they are designed like they have to render in EGA.