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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by gurkendoktor on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @07:57AM (#12164945)
> the photo app dropping the icon that looks like a camera

But the old iPhoto icon was not only showing a camera, it was showing a camera and a photo. The camera is part of the icon because iPhoto/Photos can also be used to import photos from cameras that look exactly like the one in the icon. The old icon really couldn't be more fitting for what the app does.

And even if users don't know what a camera is, they can still recognise the other 50% of the icon.

Plus, Apple itself still uses the same type of camera in other icons, most notably on the current iOS lock screen, so I don't think anyone is confused by the iconography. Most people never compose a song and yet they know that iTunes' icon is a musical note.

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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by CPLX on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @10:39AM (#12165904)
It's a picture of a physical camera with a big lens, and a physical print of a photo with a white border. Supposedly representing an app that people use to store and organize photos they take with a phone and view on a display screen.
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Re:The Apple Goes Mushy Part I: OS X's Interface Decline by redial on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:30AM (#12166310)
> And even if users don't know what a camera is, they can still recognise the other 50% of the icon.

Can they? who prints photos anymore?

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