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Comment by hadrien01 | Hacker News Reader

Is it me or does the App Store website look... fake? The text in the header ("Productiviteit", "Alleen voor iPhone") looks pixelated, like it was edited on Paint, the header background is flickering, the app icon and screenshots are very low quality, the title of the website is incomplete ("App Store voor iPho...")

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Here's the US version of the same page: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id67496...

The design quality is still poor. But that's the new Apple. Design is no longer one of their core strengths.

It's the dutch version, see /nl/ in the url.

If you just go to https://apps.apple.com/ it does look better, but I agree, still a bit "off".

Issues caused by a low effort localization?

On my iPhone it opens on the App Store app, so it looks fine to me.

What browser are you using? I don't see any of this behavior on Firefox...

Firefox on Windows, but it looks about the same in Edge

Screenshot of the header: https://i.imgur.com/4abfGYF.png

It looks like there is some sort of glow effect on the text that isn't rendering right on your browser? It arguably doesn't have the best contrast, but seems to be as intended in Safari 26.3. Looks similar on Chrome macOS too: https://imgur.com/yq5PrKm.

Renders equally weird for me on Firefox on Windows 11. Firefox on MacOS looks good though.

Edit: Seems like mix-blend-mode: plus-lighter is bugged in Firefox on Windows https://jsfiddle.net/bjg24hk9/

Firefox on Android: 'Google AI' (in app name) is clipped off the top; the Apple 'share' button is clipped on the bottom.

Everything renders crystal clear with Firefox on GrapheneOS.

Nothing weird on my side

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