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Not to write an irrelevant comment, but printed out this article is 52 pages... c'mon, that's a bit excessive even if you really like Apple.
by blisse 12y ago
Not to write an irrelevant comment, but printed out this article is 52 pages... c'mon, that's a bit excessive even if you really like Apple.
- AVTizzle 12y agoAgreed - I read the first paragraph before realizing how long the thing was. It's a bit of a turnoff TBH. I'd read the distilled bullet points for takeaways if there were any. But in this long of form? I have trouble committing!
- dewey 12y agoIt's an article for a print magazine, not a Buzzfeed post.
- rospaya 12y agoWith a few ads and an op-ed that IS a magazine.
- jethro_tell 12y ago10 Jonny Ive quotes you'll have to read out of context. You'll never believe 7.
- kmfrk 12y agoI imagine they wanted to make it a paywalled article but thought no one in their right mind would want to read the story outside of the magazine anyway and made it free. :) Speaking of, does their iOS app still crash five minutes into reading an article? I had to give up on reading the magazine altogether, when their digital app couldn't even be bothered to remember my reading position in their longform articles after each crash.
- hengheng 12y ago23 pages in two-column Calibri 10pt ... I'm going to spare that one for lunch break.
- pervycreeper 12y agoThere is a segment of the population who will read anything, as long as it is related in some way to Apple. Some of them are on HN, too.
- mariodiana 12y agoThere is a tiny segment of the population who will read the New Yorker, where pieces of this length are the norm. This segment represents the last of the literate.
- arrrg 12y agoWhat's liking Apple got to do with that? Even if you despise Apple you cannot just ignore its relevance and the role it plays. Do you really think it's wasted effort to write a couple thousand words about a designer as influential as their lead designer – even if you think his work sucks or is just average or whatever?
- blisse 12y agoNot trying to bash the company, meant the comment as even Apple fans are going to have a hard time reading that much, especially with the writer's prose. I love in-depth material, but this feels a lot more like an author's book rather than journalist's article.
- eropple 12y agoI have no problems reading long-form articles. I have an attention span, and for things that interest me I will use it. Do you not? I mean, this is how journalism was fifty years ago. Go read an old issue of Harper's or The Atlantic from the fifties or sixties. They're better, because in addition to being informative they're a joy to read. They're written by people who understand and respect English and want you to enjoy the prose of their work as well as the content.