Linked List: October 6, 2016

Thursday, 6 October 2016

The Talk Show: ‘A Murder of Eeros’ ★

New episode of America’s favorite 3-star podcast, The Talk Show, with special guest Matthew Panzarino. Topics include Google’s “Made by Google” hardware announcements (the Pixel phones, Google Wi-Fi routers, their Amazon Echo competitor Google Home), mobile photography, Samsung’s acquisition of Viv, and more.

Apple Pulls Bizarre ‘Orchard’ Web Page Promoting Entry Level Marketing Jobs ★

Last night a web page at apple.com/the-orchard/ appeared. It is now gone. The entirety of the page was this image — text rendered in a PNG like a web page in 1996. A couple of glaringly obvious problems with this:

Using a big long PNG image as a web page is ridiculous.
The image only looked “right” when viewed on an iPhone. On larger displays it looked terrible.
The text of the web page reads like ad agency hot air. It’s bullshit.
That crude “O” with a leaf on the top to make it look like the Apple logo. What the holy hell was that? Who thought that was OK?

Something weird happened here.