Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy
Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh
- Apple Store accessibility lawsuit (Robert Shaw vs. Apple) (2020.02.20)
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Robert Shaw, a wheelchair user, is suing Apple Canada in Ontario for an inaccessible work environment. I have these court documents and you don’t. I went and got them and you didn’t. I did research and published this article based on that research, and you did neither
- iPhone type sizes in points (2019.02.06)
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I measured actual point sizes of type on an iPhone X
- Folk UI (2019.01.13)
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User-interface conventions that individuals invented from scratch that went on to become actual norms.
- Non-Apple MP3 players (2018.11.26)
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Circa 2010, iTunes could recognize these “non-Apple” MP3 players
- iPhones are hard to use (2018.10.22)
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Very advanced, very tuned-in people learn about, and learn how to use, new Apple features by watching them being demonstrated onstage during Apple keynote events. Then there’s everybody else
- iPhone keyboards randomly change colour (2018.10.22)
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Keyboards and keypads on iOS randomly switch from positive to negative. My blind friend couldn’t call voicemail for weeks until he figured out a workaround
- My setup (2018.10.22)
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My iPhone setup (sidebar)
- How to listen to YouTube audio as a “podcast” (2018.01.09)
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Who the hell wants to sit fixedly in a chair watching a visually uninteresting YouTube video when you can just listen to it while on the go? A lot of lectures and interviews have no useful visual component, and you really can just listen to them and miss almost nothing