The Fallling Apple
I’m an Apple man, through and through. I’ve come to rely on the useful, thoughtful, straightforward apps and devices that Apple’s reputation was built on. But something is changing. The changes are small, but they reflect a disconnect to users that Apple ten years ago would consider unthinkable. Here’s a couple of examples. Red is the new green In the iOS 26 family, when you go to put a new event in Calendar, you have the option to accept changes or discard them—exactly as one would expect. However, the accept button is a red checkmark, and the cancel button is a white X. So red, the universal color of stopping/deleting/cancelling, is Apple’s choice for confirm/accept. And the cancel/delete button is a neutral white. It defies logic that Apple’s quality control is excited about re-brandking the color red to mean “go” when literally every else in our solar system, red means “stop.’ Sub bullets are not a thing The Journaling app (which I use and genuinely like) has a handy feature ...
