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I don't know what the fallacy terminology is, but the arguments sounds like "this decision is bad; thus this other decision is good". I get the criticism, but the attractiveness of the alternative presupposes some very ideal conditions which render the alternative inferior.

While the maximum quality might have been better with the alternative, the minimum and average/median quality will be consistently better with Apple's choice. I shudder to think that I might pay for a book only to find out that it is typeset in justified Comic Sans (or Marker Felt ...) with no tracking, and whichever atrocities the publisher might maul the text proper with.



It sounds like http://www.logicalfallacies.info/presumption/false-dilemma/ to me. And I agree that that's what the argument sounds like.




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