Apple has been holding its Worldwide Developer Convention (WWDC) for over 30 years and albeit — aside from nobody calling them out for abbreviating it with two Ws in that span of time — I haven’t got robust emotions about them. Launch a brand new factor. Shovel AI bloatware into no matter. It is huge tech’s world and I am simply as trapped in it as anybody else. Think about considering iterative updates to a goddamn pc are a core a part of your id. Could not be me!
However my world-weary ears perked up after I noticed this little tidbit from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman forward of Monday’s keynote:
Within the newest iPhone working system — iOS 18, codenamed Crystal — app icons will now not have to stay in a neat grid. As a substitute, customers will be capable to place icons wherever they select on their house display. Furthermore, icon colours might be customizable for the primary time.
Reader, it is time to make your private home display seem like an entire catastrophe.
Certain, there is a model of this new freedom the place somebody may actually maximize their productiveness on Apple units (ew) or obtain a singular aesthetic that spits within the face of Apple’s sanitized design language (nearer, however nonetheless no). As a substitute, lets bask within the glory of letting our apps resemble a teen’s bed room. Give me an overstuffed closet of defunct climate software program. An unfinished homework pile of exercise trackers. An unmade mattress of Temple Run clones pressed uncomfortably near a junk drawer of ad-laden Maps alternate options.
After all you may “make all [your] social media apps blue or finance-related icons inexperienced” as Gurman suggests. Or you might flip ever app the identical form and shade, rename all of them to ‘Gmail’ and spend a part of each day making an attempt to resolve the terrible puzzle you have turned your person expertise into.
I am informed that is the form of performance Android customers have had for some time. If that’s the case, why have not you folks been benefiting from this?? None of us get pleasure from utilizing these horrible issues. Let disarray delight you.
Why can we climb mountains? For a similar cause we stick the cup beneath each single spout within the soda machine and see what they style like collectively. The purest of human intuition guides them each.
