Week-in-Review: Auditing a dark age in Apple design

Hello, weekend readers. This is Week-in-Review where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure.
Last week, I talked about how YouTube was letting its commenting system turn from a festering wasted opportunity into a liability.
The big story
Plenty happened this week, though most of the news signified something larger looming on th