HomeView is right to break the rectangular mold

Macworld It can take a while to get used to the design of a completely new Apple product. Vision Pro, AirPods Max, even iPhone Duo all looked bizarre when they were first unveiled. So it shouldn’t be a surprise that right now, I feel like the HomeView looks weird. Possibly because it’s so square. Technically, of course, the screen of the HomeView is not a square but a squircle, because of the rounded corners. Everyone knows that the squircle was Steve Jobs’ favorite shape, which is why it crops up so much in Apple software design. But it crops up less often in the company’s hardware design (the Apple TV and Mac mini are the main exceptions here), and almost never in the shape of its screens. Until now you’d struggle to find a square or squircular screen on an Apple product anywhere other than the Apple Watch, which I assume is why, in its unexpectedly premature exclusive, Wired described the HomeView as a “giant Apple Watch for the home.” In g