And now you know.

Don’t tell me it’s cost prohibitive – it’s Apple, with no shortage of

• in-house engineering expertise
• ability to monetize any devised solutions
• ability to purchase solutions
• and cash.

They created this problem with their insistence (against all professional advice, and even common sense) on their lofty aesthetic…

If Apple insists on retaining the original design, it can use technology to mitigate the issue.

We’ve all been doing this, whenever confronted by reCAPTCHA.

As the article mentions — but almost in passing fashion — the core deception is that Facebook advertises this compilation of news as “trending”topics, as if it was just an impartial list dumbly generated (in the good sense) by the hive mind, when in fact it is not. Their curated approach accomplishes at least two…