{"id":3435,"date":"2012-08-05T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2012-08-05T23:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T06:39:09","slug":"the-moral-case-against-apple-in-one-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2012\/08\/05\/23\/30\/the-moral-case-against-apple-in-one-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moral Case Against Apple In One Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, in the 1980s, Apple came for my Franklin Ace<\/a>, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for my centred icon labels, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for my overlapping and resizable windows, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for my trash can icon, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for my unlock screen, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for my black rectangles, and it was time to speak out.<\/p>\n

Thanks to the Apple-Samsung trial discovery, Apple has had to abandon, for a time, pushing the auteur conceit that its magical devices spring virtually fully formed from the forehead of demigods such as Steve Jobs, Athena\/Minerva-fashion, but instead revealed a rather usual, classic design-by-committee, competitor analysis and focus group iterative process. However, Apple has circulated several pictures where it basically claims to have created the black rectangle form factor for mobile almost entirely uninfluenced by anything that had gone before. But it is using rather selective timeline pictures, promulgated widely<\/a> by the Apple Polishers.<\/p>\n

Here’s a different timeline:
\n\"Rectangular<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First, in the 1980s, Apple came for my Franklin Ace, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for my centred icon labels, and I did not speak out. Then Apple came for...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[1380,1539,1157],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-mobile","tag-samsung"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t