Apple, This is Unacceptable.
Sorry for the lack of updates. Real life, college, and various other things have interfered. Consider this post a resumption of form.
One thing I love about Apple is their attention to all the little details of the UI experience. No other company or open-source project has been able to match Apple’s quality control over interfaces. That is why I am so upset.
See, the headphone jack on my 5th Generation iPod video broke. I had to get a new one or learn to solder. I opted to get a new iPod classic, and I fell in love with it immediately. It’s everything my old iPod was and more. The new interface is quite nice, save for one thing…
See that? That is an errant apostrophe. It’s unacceptable, it’s incorrect, it should not be there. Apple, shame on you.
An apostrophe is never, ever used to make a word plural, nor abbreviations, not even when the word ends in a vowel. An apostrophe is used to indicate a multiple of a letter (e.g. “The word letter has two t’s.”). That’s the beginning and end of the apostrophe’s role as plural.
The saddest, most pathetic part of this, is that the previous iPod iterations have all done this right. The menu option was “To-Dos,” and that is the way it should have stayed.
Maybe it’ll be fixed in the next update. I can only hope. Apostrophe abuse must be stopped.
