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by 72deluxe 4369 days ago
I too find the flat snow-blindness white landscape difficult to navigate, and the removal of buttons looking like buttons means you have to blindly stab over the device at words to discover if they're buttons. I turned on the "make buttons look like buttons" option in Accessibility and they just look like early-90s hyperlinks instead. I wouldn't be surprised if they added a blinking scrolling marquee to complete the effect, and perhaps an animated rainbow-coloured horizontal ruler haha. I look like an idiot when attempting to use my iPad, sort of like those annoying types who double-click links on web pages (let's send two GET requests!)

I can only imagine how my mum gets on with it. The removal of buttons to do things is another thing - how the heck do you remove a bookmark in Safari on iOS? Ah yes, swipe sideways of course. This took me hours to discover. I am all for simplicity, but not for removal of hints/controls.

The Calendar application on OSX is now a big white blob. I could just stick a piece of blank A4 paper to my screen and get the same effect.

It distresses me, as you can tell. I shouldn't be squinting when using an application on a computer, or fumbling around with an iPad like it's a children's noisy toy or toy phone / etch-a-sketch. If they added beep boop boop beep wheeee noises then it'd complete the effect.