Apple Goes For Smug, Dash Doesn't Dig It

By way of Daring Fireball, we were passed along over to Anil Dash, for his piece “Smug Ugly” about Apple taking its smugness a little too far in its new OS X. The story goes, when you’re looking at a handful of other computers on your network, the ones that are not Macs, are displayed as “aged-looking monitor and a crash computer” (see: Windows’ “blue screen of death”). While it’s clearly meant as a joke, Dash says it isn’t very funny, and we tend to agree, particularly when he gets right into it: