A map Apple used during its iPhone 3.0 announcement to show the countries in which the iPhone is available is drawing fire for omitting Greenland and Iceland. Well, from Iceland, anyway. Okay, one Icelander. Just imagine the complaints that would have been generated if Apple had included Greenland — they used a Mercator projection!
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The Mercator projection is a tool of Satan. I despair at its being the de facto standard for all maps.
At least The Onion skewered it in Our Dumb World.
March 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM