We'll admit that Apple's solution is easier on the eyes, but accuracy trumps prettiness (and occasional at-a-glance readability) any day.

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Scenic roads dip and rise through the region, past farmhouses huddling on hillsides and half-timbered towns with a rustic, fairy-tale-like prettiness.

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"We're less concerned about the prettiness than the argument, " says Connerty.

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But behind the prettiness is poverty.

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