Andy Futuro | Horror Author
allisonios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile
the weird big-bun hamburger in the upper right corner opened a menu with a truly bizarre set of options: display all animations, translate to japanese, activate automatic summaries
Owen@aparrish That looks suspiciously like the version of Safari's user interface you get if you open Safari from inside of a persistent web application (share/add to home screen).
Wild to see it inside of what I assume to be a "real" - first-party, at that - application.
mgiraldo
Morten
brib 
Joan of Contention 😷
Elio Campitelli@aparrish podcasts podcasts podcasts podcasts
Krazov
Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse
⁂ L. Rhodes@aparrish I'm waiting on them to add blinking text to the mix.
Cadbury Moose
Vega Rose Dawn Lyra Harmonia@aparrish If I'm ever opening a restaurant I'm calling it inscrutable hamburgers
Andrew@VegaHarmonia @aparrish 0/5 stars, was able to scrute the hamburgers
@VegaHarmonia @aparrish this is outrageous! I’m calling the Inscrutable Business Bureau!
quotequack@VegaHarmonia @aparrish
and place it next to an apple store.
specialize in icecream w a penguin as þe logo
and place it next to an apple store.
specialize in icecream w a penguin as þe logo
cthululemonSomewhat hilariously, this is my view of your image, from Ice Cubes on iOS 😅
JP
Trammell Hudson@aparrish mastodon has helpfully added some more floating buttons to make the screenshot even more nihilistic.
ranjit
phooky
sykora 
jwz
Ozzelot 
billy joe bowers 🗽
MaryMarasKittenBakery@aparrish
Some people seem to like it, no matter how shitty they get
Some people seem to like it, no matter how shitty they get
Joshua Kaden@aparrish This is driving me crazy; it’s so bad I assumed I’d messed up my configuration somehow
Ibly 🏳️⚧️ 
@aparrish "oh but apple devices are just easier to use"
Andrew Furrow@aparrish Sign In is really the cherry on top. Fucking hell
notanowl
↑ TIM
stony kark
Pete Prodoehl 🍕@aparrish I've been seeing some weird overlaps but I assumed it was because I have a 6 year old iPhone and that was just my punishment for not upgrading.
Jason Lefkowitz@aparrish In fairness though, I wouldn't mind fewer podcasts and more oddcasts
Eric Bono
Nicole ParsonsThis is what #PrinceBonesaw paid for... enshittification of the tech industry
https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-crown-prince-visits-apple-google-2018-4
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/tim-cook-apple-gets-saudi-arabia-scandal-of-its-own
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/11/19/apple-ceo-tim-cook-saudi-prince-dinner/
https://www.arabnews.com/news/521226
https://apple.gadgethacks.com/news/tim-cook-dines-with-saudi-prince-despite-khashoggi-controversy/
Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷@aparrish This happens when apps get vibe coded, the robots are worse at GUI layouts than CLI developers.
Or when one does the unthinkable and modifies the font size settings, which apparently nobody ever tests.
Phil Haigh@aparrish I’m convinced that the internal code make for iOS 26 was “just ship it”.
Tachibana Kanade@aparrish @cstross To clear the current text field, just press the X in a circle to the right of the text field. To exit the current view entirely, just press the X in a circle to the right of a text field. Simples!
Charlie Stross
A Republic, while we kept it@aparrish I'm old enough to remember when Apple prided itself on ease of use and intuitive GUI.
DressToKILT@aparrish "all human action is futile"
I feel like we were explicitly warned about this in 1989.
🄻🅄🄽🄰@aparrish been using an iphone as a secondary 4 a couple o months and i really dont get how people can take the suffering the ui brings upon them
like all the animations and transitions look super slick (if they dont bug out) but even if they do exactly as u want they take 4everr
if they do what u want
Katzentratschen@katzentratschen yea i had an ipad in school years ago (that just died randomly one day ofc) and i dont remember it being all that terrible
but honestly ist just all the small things for me that just annoy tf outta me
like as an android user im used 2 swiping in2 certain directions on the homescreen. ofc thats all inverted on ios but what really annoys me is that once i swipe in the wrong direction an opposite swipe doesnt bring me back where i came from
then theres the back gesture
like why is it only there half the time and other times i have 2 search 4 some out of reach ui element 2 go back
(i literally had 2 close gmaps and open it again bc i didnt realize 2 go back i had 2 hit that small x button way up top 2 go back)
android will always let u swipe back, wherever u are, always taking u 2 the last screen/activity and u wan swipe back from either screen side
also im soo used 2 swiping on the space bar 2 control the cursor and having 2 tap n hold on the text 2 move it is just sooo fucking slow
lastly ive stopped counting the number of times the home gesture just disappeared, which frankly is just embarrasing
all in all just feels soo stubborn and slow 2 use
(bit biased on the slow tho since i completely disable window and transition animations so evertyhing just happens instantly on my droid)
Jeff McNeill@aparrish @jaeclectic I had an Iphone 5 and a Macbook Air, both from 2012. Both later me 7 years, and I even said the Macbook Air for 40% of it's purchase price. Loved them, let them go. It was an era that is no longer. I feel for those folks who are stuck with what Apple has become.