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back in the day, apple used icons that looked like the machine you owned to represent your hard drive. aside from the happy mac on startup, this was one of the most endearing things connecting me to my machine. visually, it made sense and no explanation was ever needed. it gave individuality and personality to the machine.
so, at some point (at least two or so years ago?) apple decided to use a very generic internal hard drive icon (as seen above) to represent your hard drive. it is the same on all macs.
my mother has never seen an internal hard drive. additionally, it is generically named "Macintosh HD". HD for hard drive i suppose, but I wonder what my mother thinks it stands for. it is now a meaningless icon.
i know it is a small thing, but from a company that prides itself on branding, design, usability and individuality, i am dumbfounded and disappointed.
has anyone seen other musings on this topic? i am sure apple had some sort of reason, i would be interested in hearing it.
Posted by griff at June 23, 2004 02:52 PM