Archive for category: Macintosh supremacy

Of or pertaining to the supremacy of the Macintosh

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)

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This is how lousy Android accessibility is    (2012.08.05)

A couple of Android devices, running the rarely-seen current version of the operating system, kind of support accessibility. How well? About as well as you’d expect

Slavoj Žižek explains Apple design    (2012.06.20)

A limited freedom of choice opens up other freedoms of choice, Slavoj Žižek says

At this point I think Apple can afford captioning    (2012.06.20)

Whether they’re captioned up front or shipped first and captioned later, Apple has the money to pay for captioning of its videos. Because I thought Apple was committed to accessibility