Apple!, person (restroom style), basketball (as described to someone who has never seen one), trash (drag down to open?).
The perspective of the new icons matches the non-euclidean plane of existence Apple's current designers famously occupy, but they're a little uncomfortable to try to make sense of to a regular Earth-dweller like me.
ayaros · 3h ago
I'm honestly not crazy about these. I was hoping they'd replace this with a chip on a board or something a bit more literal.
> maybe the icon had started clicking, and Apple just wanted to replace it before it suffered from catastrophic icon failure—but regardless, the switch is logical
this is clearly the right explanation
ktallett · 3h ago
Whilst I understand a spinning hard disk is not really relevant in this day and age, I question changing the icon to something that doesn't particularly resemble a modern storage solution. I feel apple are moving away from clarity for the majority.
duxup · 1h ago
I agree, the save icon is a floppy disk in many cases, people don't use those disks much anymore, but everyone knows what it is.
emchammer · 3h ago
None of Apple's icons resemble anything these days other than this uniform blobby whatever. I cannot imagine why.
rpdillon · 2h ago
Yeah, the first thing that struck me when I looked at the images was how detailed and accurate the old icon was and how generic the new one is. It's just a blob with an Apple logo on it (for the internal drive, at least).
The perspective of the new icons matches the non-euclidean plane of existence Apple's current designers famously occupy, but they're a little uncomfortable to try to make sense of to a regular Earth-dweller like me.
> maybe the icon had started clicking, and Apple just wanted to replace it before it suffered from catastrophic icon failure—but regardless, the switch is logical
this is clearly the right explanation