Friday Finds, IV
Does That Bible Come in Rose Gold? (The New Yorker)
The Bible didn’t evoke any such adrenaline rush. “So the idea I had was, what if this was designed in a different way?” He met Ye-Chung at a Christian event on campus and was captivated by the fact that they shared almost the same name. “We knew we wanted to do something with art and faith,” Ye-Chung said. “It would be a brand. At first we wanted to do a magazine, but we didn’t have an audience. We decided to just start with the Bible.”
Ah, so it's a marketing issue.
Why Urban Millennials Love Uniqlo (The Atlantic)
The question Uniqlo faces now is whether it can inherit the Gap’s empire without repeating its mistakes. To do so, it will have to convince shoppers across the country of a proposition that’s radical for the industry: Fashion can be affordable without being disposable.
I Don’t Care. I Love My Phone. (NY Times)
A few months ago I went to dinner with the kind of people whose idea of fun is to correct your pronunciation of “niçoise,” and they boldly suggested that we all put our phones face down in the center of the table for the entirety of the meal and what felt like a needlessly lingering discussion afterward.
Now, I didn’t die. But I also didn’t know what time it was.
Apple Watch authentication expanding beyond unlocking your Mac in macOS 10.15 (9to5Mac)
According to sources familiar with the development of macOS, the next major version of the operating system will allow users to authenticate other operations on the Mac beyond just unlocking the machine with their watch.
I love being able to unlock my Mac just by wearing the watch and standing close to the Mac, since I have a long and complicated computer password. And the security implementation underlying the watch-to-unlock tech is awesome as well.
But being able to do even more authentication via the Apple Watch (aside from watch-to-unlock and Apple Pay) is something I'm excited about. Many say the AirPods are the best brand-new product Apple's come out with in a while. While I really love my AirPods, I put the Apple Watch higher in my value list.