apple: subordinating function to silliness
A clock should tell the time. How well does this clock do that: Not bad, in that you can tell the time from it. But why obscure part of the last digit? Just to be cute? It makes it harder to read. This kind of thing is a very active kind of stupidity. It didn't just happen like that. A whole team of renegade employees probably conspired to do it, wrote "codes" and "algorithms" to make it happen, and managed to slip it past management and the entire quality management process, to despoil the front screen of the iphone. On its way, the "codes" probably got reviewed in a "codes" review system, someone commented on a better way this or that could be computed, and someone checked if the graphics algorithm worked for edge cases. Some east asians then manually tested it. And it would have been better if all of them had done nothing. This is similar to all the effort put into things sliding around the screen and transitioning: huge amounts of...