Reported plans for Apple’s tabletop robot seem both excellent and awful

Yesterday’s Bloomberg report on Apple’s upcoming tabletop robot didn’t reveal anything new about the hardware, but plans to give it a personality could represent a huge gamble.

The starting point seems both uncontroversial and a great idea – basing the UI on the friendly Finder icon that we’ve known and loved since the welcome screen of the original Macintosh back in 1984 …

A Finder-based animated face

While Mark Gurman said Memoji-styles alternatives are being…