"From what is visible so far, the National Design Studio isn’t functioning as a civic design program so much as an advertising agency for the administration and its policy goals. If one was feeling less charitable, they might simply call it a digital propaganda department." (see later in the piece for a vicious takedown of the Apple Store as a concept and institution)
"After High Sierra there was Sierra, and then Apple had decided to rename macOS into OS X. This was the culmination of the multi-year project of decoupling the mobile iOS from the desktop OS, which made perfect sense to most users. Apple continued to prove their dedication to open platforms, because in a later version of their desktop OS (Snow Leopard) they had discontinued App Store altogether."
every onion story eventually comes true
"... we have property rights, so the original owner is not the current owner and does not technically have a right to condemn to death what is no longer their property."