Why not? That symbol has been consistently used as a save icon for decades now. A lot of people know what it means. I doubt you will be able to find a save ic

Why not? That symbol has been consistently used as a save icon for decades now. A lot of people know what it means. I doubt you will be able to find a save icon that works better. I see no point in fighting it. It will fall out of use soon enough anyway (when automatic saving finds more widespread adoption). If you think about, it works pretty well exactly because no one is using those disks anymore. No one would think that this icon saves something on an actual 3.5″ disk, it’s the concept of saving that’s meant with this icon. Using a HDD icon or an SSD icon (i.e. going the naive update route) would only be potentially confusing. Those icons were and are commonly used to access the file system (and are consequently more likely to be thought of as representing opening something, not saving something). I think there is a case to be made for sticking with older (but nevertheless in pop culture widespread and formerly popular) symbols. Take the old fashioned telephone receiver on the icon of the phone app of the iPhone. Why not update that and stick a modern phone receiver on there – you know, a smartphone! Let’s stick an iPhone on there! I think it’s pretty obvious that that would be a bad idea.