![]() ![]() The USB ports, for instance are placed in an awkward to access rear portion of the screen so as not to interfere with the sleek look of the damned thing. Apple has a fetishistic design aesthetic that I’ve come to see as getting in the way of the functioning of the machine. number I needed was printed on the bottom of the “foot” that holds the heavy screen in a microscopic type printed gray on a gray background. ![]() In order to upgrade that iMac with a new solid state drive, I had to find an identification number. Over the last year I’ve set out on a project to demystify Apple’s closed system by popping open its sleek minimalist objects to peer inside, to fix and prolong the life of a motley set of Apple junk I’ve come into possession of. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: a long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. Everyone has a right to salvation.ĭOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach – if not the Kingdom of Heaven – the moment in which their document is printed. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the “ratio studiorum” of the Jesuits. ![]()
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