What you are saying makes exactly zero sense.
You are making a very weird and convoluted excuse that is simply not true.

Also, you were ok until the name calling later in the thread.

I was genuinely puzzled that you would bring type weight to this, while the real problem is really alignment.
Well, THANK YOU FOR THAT. I want to punch the screen now.
Metro is the user interface Jon Ive would have designed if he were a UI designer. Devoid of artifice, simple, honest, all function and elegance.
Design choice? Since when bad alignment is a design choice?
And you believe them? Really? Why are Tuesday, Thursday and Friday offset too? And why is not the Sunday equally offset to the right?

Your friends gave you a load of bs.

What are you talking about? This has nothing to do with the weight of the capital letters. The days are set at equal distance from each other, the wrong distance. It doesn't take into account the center of the actual columns, which is why you end up with this design clusterfuck.

Sloppy design.

Yes, that's the problem.
The calendar in the iPad is a disgrace.
It has nothing to do with it.
No, you have that wrong. Jobs didn't work like he used to in the last year of his life (and before that as well, when he was in treatment and out). He delegated a lot. This is clearly a product of that. Don't diminish the man. He was obsessed with detail.
We wrote about all those things already.

Next?

This is not bad kerning. This goes way beyond bad kerning.

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Are you being sarcastic? Please clarify.
No, there's not. First warning. There will not be a second.
If you say OK, then it is YOUR problem or not. But like Steve says, you can sneakily steal this data. You have to ask first, ask them every time.

That's the big difference.

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