Apple's press conference showed a brand unraveling
Apple has long been known for its intense focus on consistent branding and beautiful simplicity.
While today's Apple event unveiled a couple new improvements to an expected lineup of products, it also revealed a certain sloppiness that was absent from former, Steve Jobs-led launches.
This wasn't anything major, just a few minor but glaring inconsistencies: Tim Cook going for the "rumpled executive" look in an untucked shirt, the ambiguous naming of the "new iPad," (not iPad 3 or iPad HD), the use of a…



