Ranting to /dev/null

Is Apple bad for design?

Perhaps a provocative claim, but there's an interesting piece on that subject over at DesignObserver (hat tip: MeFi).

The suggestion is that yes, Apple has a pretty sweet style, but that style and design are not one and the same, and the imposition of a single "default" style that works so well for software does not necessarily work quite so well for hardware. It suggests that solving all your design problems with an "Illustrator-sketched oval" is not necessarily the way to go.

Design geeks, take a look.