Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy

Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh

Defeating Face ID    (2017.09.28)

There are other face-recognition systems, even on telephones, but Face ID on the iPhone X will be the gold standard to beat. Hence it becomes an amusing parlour game to imagine ways to defeat this still-unreleased technology [update with how stupid I feel about this entire post]

Steve Dorner: Still undead    (2015.07.04)

Steve Dorner: Still undead, and your E‑mail still sucks

Daring Fireball Truth and Reconciliation Commission    (2015.06.12)

King of Macintosh journalists John Gruber, like his fellow-traveller male technology hacks, has much to answer for after they spent years hushing up the fact Tim Cook is gay

Names of Apple designers    (2015.03.18)

From numerous sources, names of many of Apple’s allegedly-19-strong team of designers

Memo to Khoi Vinh: Helvetica complaints    (2014.10.28)

Khoi Vinh: “Helvetica has been the standard system typeface for iOS since the beginning, and largely without complaint.” Oh?

Two editors you don’t want working on your nonfiction book    (2014.01.16)

Natalie Horbechevsky and Brooke Carey. They’re the editrixen listed in the acknowledgements to Leander Kahney’s Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, a treasure trove of repetitiveness and warmed-over quotes

Nerds as if manfully reject the 5C    (2014.01.06)

Nerds think colour is girly and faggy. Actually, I question their manhood

Seemingly every Apple designer in one photograph    (2013.06.17)

The hard-to-find photo of Jonny Ive and all his designers (a mere 16 of them)