From “Apple’s aesthetic dichotomy,” James Higgs/Made by Many.
There is a certain garish sentimentality to the design of these applications. James Higgs apparently feels the same glaring dissonance I feel when i look at this stuff: the iPad or iPhone is so damn elegant it makes you wince when you see the clumsy digital image of a puffy leatherbound book when you turn it on.
My guess, personally, is that the issue comes down to the fact that Jony Ive doesn’t design GUIs. Or the people in charge of the whole package think he’s designing a piece of hardware with a different character than what he thinks he’s designing. Sad.
Interesting long read on the difference between ideology and partisanship, the OWS protests in the modern American political sphere, and what if anything the remnants of the dead left can do with them.