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minus-squarestevestevesteve@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up48arrow-down1·11 months agoThis is the recycle bin, not trash. Apple apparently has the rights to call something “trash” and didn’t like that windows was doing the same.
minus-squareDJDarren@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 months agoAs a British Mac user who upgraded to a new machine that could run a much newer macOS, I was surprised last year to discover that over here it’s now called the Bin.
minus-squareHolyhandgrenade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 months agoDid you set the OS to UK English?
minus-squareViking_Hippie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·11 months agoSmart of them to patent the word people would otherwise use to describe them!
minus-squareImgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoRemoved by mod
minus-squaremerc@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·11 months agoAnything talking about the evolution of the “Trash Can Icon” should be starting with the Apple version that Microsoft copied.
This is the recycle bin, not trash.
Apple apparently has the rights to call something “trash” and didn’t like that windows was doing the same.
As a British Mac user who upgraded to a new machine that could run a much newer macOS, I was surprised last year to discover that over here it’s now called the Bin.
Did you set the OS to UK English?
Yep.
Smart of them to patent the word people would otherwise use to describe them!
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Anything talking about the evolution of the “Trash Can Icon” should be starting with the Apple version that Microsoft copied.