Monday, October 29, 2007

Smug Arrogance

Apple has a history of annoying smugness. But this is just petty. [Link]

There is simply nothing less attractive than a person who is both flawed and smug, and apparently one of the few plausible justifications for treating corporations as legal persons is the fact that this holds true for companies as well. And Apple is a smug company.

The new version 10.5 of Mac OS X [1] rather famously features the following display when you're browsing machines that appear to be running Microsoft Windows:



That is just petty.

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