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Good on Apple for doing this, assuming there's no tricky gotcha's or other issues that might come up later. My one criticism of them here has to do with the ar

Good on Apple for doing this, assuming there's no tricky gotcha's or other issues that might come up later. My one criticism of them here has to do with the art style on the images on this page. What's with the weird proportions on the figures? It feels unsettling and inhuman. Apple is arguably the richest corporation in the world. They can't afford to hire a great artist to create an art style that's aesthetic and uplifting and fills people with joy? They have to mimic the bottom of the barrel trendy art style that's god-awful and that bottom of the barrel talentless art students who can't draw love? This is more worthy of criticism to me than them previously borking the repairability: at least that had an understandable financial motive. This is just bad decoration that fulfills no purpose.

CyberRabbi 5y ago
It’s called “Corporate Memphis.” Yes, it’s horrendous and unsettling and, yes, it’s already a meme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-style https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty... It genuinely inspires a sense of dread within me. Like my skin is melting and my internal organs are bubbling and dislodging because I’ve drunk acid.
- Turing_Machine 5y ago
  Good Lord, that's hideous. It's like they've somehow managed to make Corporate Memphis even uglier, as difficult as that might be to believe. That sound you hear off in the distance is Jony Ive, screaming. :-)
- reayn 5y ago
  Where i come from it's referred to as the "Globohomo" art style and god do I hate it with a passion. I will admit the iteration in this specific article isn't too bad but the style overall just seems tasteless and attempts to be so unoffensive that it ends up being offensive in a different way. I'll stop ranting about it now.

CyberRabbi 5y ago

It’s called “Corporate Memphis.” Yes, it’s horrendous and unsettling and, yes, it’s already a meme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-style https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/subcultures/corporate-art-sty... It genuinely inspires a sense of dread within me. Like my skin is melting and my internal organs are bubbling and dislodging because I’ve drunk acid.

Turing_Machine 5y ago
Good Lord, that's hideous. It's like they've somehow managed to make Corporate Memphis even uglier, as difficult as that might be to believe. That sound you hear off in the distance is Jony Ive, screaming. :-)
reayn 5y ago
Where i come from it's referred to as the "Globohomo" art style and god do I hate it with a passion. I will admit the iteration in this specific article isn't too bad but the style overall just seems tasteless and attempts to be so unoffensive that it ends up being offensive in a different way. I'll stop ranting about it now.