Hate the new icon and miss the countdown! – Deadline - Watch your Life, Make it Count Review

A bird on its back sticking the feet up in the air is a cute way of showing death, and that's what this app is: a reminder of certain death, our limited time on earth, our mortality which makes relative all the mundane things we fuss about. Now we're going Disney: a dead bird is seemingly too much of a reminder for some people to handle without giving themselves a bullet or harassing the developers about how un-PC the icon is. Whatever the reason, now we have a happy bird, not sure what he's got to do with certain death. Might as well choose Donald Duck or Mickey Mouse as a logo for this app, would be equally meaningless. And what happened to the countdown? That's what I bought the app for! Is it a bit macabre? Yes, but that's the whole point. There no nice way of making it clear to people that life is a sexually transmitted disease that starts at conception and always is terminal.
Review by Nai-De on Deadline - Watch your Life, Make it Count.