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>I do not think this is the last we’ve seen of Lil Finder Guy…
https://www.macrumors.com/guide/siri-chatbot/
> Apple is planning to make visual design changes. It's not quite clear what that will entail, but for the upcoming table-top robot that's in the works, Apple has tested an animated version of Siri that looks similar to the Mac's Finder logo.
I learned about apples tiktok via this post and I must confess as an old person, in terms of brands reaching young people, I find the content pretty cool (usually I either don't understand it or think it's lame): https://www.tiktok.com/@apple
Looks like Apple decided they need their own version of the Android mascot. Theirs is definitely a little more unsettling than the little droid guy though.
Give the response this has had in the Mac community I really hope they’re smart enough to release a little playset.
It would be great merch. I know that’s not really an Apple thing but make an exception.
Tim Cook loves grubbing money.
Finder guy doesn’t technically make sense without the mouth reaching the side profile face.
I.e., only one of the two faces has a mouth.
Clicked the link hoping for something that might improve Spotlight :/
Honestly, who cares about anything AI-related that Apple does? Their head of MLX team just quit after months of threatening to leave due to MLX not being Apple's priority. Their Siri is a joke even Samsung Bixby works better than that. They switch between AI providers (OpenAI → Google) like you can "just change the LLM bro", and their M-series hardware is held back by lack of quality software and compute despite people literally begging them to improve it.
I was looking forward to upgrade my M1 Pro to M5 Max (128GB) until Awni (MLX head) quit. The new team isn't that responsive on X, and bugs keep getting piled up like they don't care if MLX is actually used in practice. After 3 years they still don't have a decent MLX server. Wanna try Qwen3.5? You can't use mlx_server because Qwen is a VLM. For that you must use MLX-VLM but that is not official and has tons of bugs. Apple refuses to open-source ANE source code even to their own MLX team.
2026: Apple chose the tip of a penis as a mascot.
Say hello to your new companion!
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e949a92e17d55...
It's saddening to me how the all the Mac OS X icons have slowly lost their definition and uniqueness over the years - this twee figurine is just the cherry on the excrement sundae. It doesn't even have the smile crossing both sides.