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Those decisions are great! The choice of an ugly mono space font isn’t, and isn’t relevant to those design goals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832054
“Ugly” is in the eye of the beholder. I for one can't complain about the font.
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It would really be incredible if Apple devices were the only device with unbreakable glass screens. That's why phone cases are ubiquitous. Why should they pay for your negligence? You might have a point if they refused to replace the screen at your cost.
I managed to drop my old Nexus 5X several times (from regular usage height, on a variety of surfaces), and it never even got any obvious scratches. Screen design are all about tradeoffs, but some people got it right years ago.
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Highest customer satisfaction of any Apple product in history.
You sure as hell better be satisfied when you're paying quarter of a grand for an earphone.
Mine have lasted nearly three years, the first time I’ve ever had earphones last over 6 months without breaking.
Consumer electronics are usually a letdown. The solution should be to buy fewer of them. Many of these consumer electronics don't actually save you time, but instead save you impulse control. There's nothing wrong with traditional headphones, except you have to think about putting them on, and wrapping up their cord when you take them off. This doesn't actually take time to do, mind you, but instead requires the cons…
You've picked a remarkably poor example to make your point. My Airpods (not the Pro, intentionally) are easily one of the best consumer electronics purchases I've made in the last decade. And it has little to do with not having to wrap the cord up. It's that they're so light and unobtrusive that I can wear them for hours at a time, whether I'm listening to something or not.
But please know, I don't mean this argumentatively. It's just a difference of perspective I suppose.
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I don't know dude, they've replaced like, 3 laptops for me, all the keyboards, everything. They fix it all, no problem, everything is easy when it's scheduled by appointment. I'm never at fault for the issue though.
Same here, been through many replacement cycles with Apple, and whenever it was clearly Apples' problem, they replaced the system, no questions asked. There was the NVIDIA GPU flap, the thermal paste issue, the screen bleed, and even an iPhone - 3 MacBook replacements, and an iPhone, for free, because Apple took responsibility for having designed and shipped a shitty product (really, all were flaws in Apple's supplie…
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Thanks, I wasn't sure if the parent comment referred to my writing or the blog design. The latter we try to keep as minimal as possible, with no JS (Except a tiny non-Google analytics snippet), ads, external fonts or other garbage on the page.
Those decisions are great! The choice of an ugly mono space font isn’t, and isn’t relevant to those design goals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832054
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Those decisions are great! The choice of an ugly mono space font isn’t, and isn’t relevant to those design goals. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23832054
I like it and don't think it's ugly. If you don't like it then disable custom fonts in your browser so you don't have to see other people's "ugly" preferences.
But regardless, deliberately setting prose to be monospace is a poor styling choice, and it probably is a choice because that's usually to give the typewriter aesthetic.