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> 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 came
by gurkendoktor 10y ago
> 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.
- CPLX 10y agoIt'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.
- redial 10y ago> 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?