Personifying inanimate objects is usually either a metaphor or signifies something unsettling. This article borders on the latter of those two.

Sorry, that was just the way I took it.

Between the passive aggressiveness

>Sam cuts me off. “Em,” she says, “can you control the volume? You’re very loud.”

>“I am?” I ask.

>“YES,” the entire bullpen yells.

And then the obsessive literalness of the personification of the ipad this was a weird read for me.