{"id":449463,"date":"2026-01-31T11:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449463\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:58:13","slug":"two-wrongs-dont-make-a-right-but-how-about-sixteen-six-colors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/449463\/","title":{"rendered":"Two wrongs don\u2019t make a right, but how about sixteen? \u2013 Six Colors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"778\" width=\"1360\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/backpage-dan.png\" alt=\"Dan writes the Back Page. Art by Shafer Brown.\" data-image-w=\"\" data-image-h=\"\" class=\" jetpack-broken-image\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Remember a decade ago, when our biggest concern about Apple was that it made crappy laptop keyboards?<\/p>\n<p>Ah, yes, the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>Here in 2026, hardware design seems to be the one thing that the company is doing right. I\u2019ve got an M4 MacBook Air, and it\u2019s honestly hard to find anything wrong with it. That iPhone 17 Pro in orange? A thing of beauty. Not to get ahead of Jason\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/tag\/reportcard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">annual report card<\/a> results, but it kind of feels like we\u2019ve kind of run aground after that category.<\/p>\n<p>Software quality? Ehhhh. Social impact? Hoo boy.<\/p>\n<p>Look, I don\u2019t want to be a bummer. I\u2019m dropping the bit here for a hot minute, because it\u2019s hard to crack jokes about Tim Cook <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/member\/2023\/03\/the-back-page-we-got-nothing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">being a robot<\/a> or the dread god Glog-Raggopth waking from his slumber when they both kind of feel a bit too close to home.<\/p>\n<p>To my mind, the company hasn\u2019t been headed in this wrong of a direction since they started driving with Apple Maps.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remember a decade ago, when our biggest concern about Apple was that it made crappy laptop keyboards? Ah,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1337,64,63,1340,1342,16344,1341,1339,20237,105],"class_list":["post-449463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-ios","tag-ipad","tag-ipados","tag-iphone","tag-mac","tag-macos","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}