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No, you missed my point. Why does it matter what Steve Jobs liked? The tweaks in this story seemed to stem from Job's personal preference, and not any usability
by normloman 11y ago
No, you missed my point. Why does it matter what Steve Jobs liked? The tweaks in this story seemed to stem from Job's personal preference, and not any usability concerns.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoThe personal preferences of Jobs were possibly the single biggest contributor to making Apple the most successful consumer technology company in history. No one is going to argue he wasn't a rampaging narcissistic asshole. Even so - it makes no sense at all to ignore how much he steered the look and feel of Apple products, and of late 20th/early 21st century design in general. He was the only person working in computing with a consistent interest in design. Microsoft and IBM had zero interest, DEC had a minor interest in making nice-looking minis and mainframes, and the 8/16 bit micros often had some product design applied to the casing. No one else was thinking about software and GUI aesthetics at all.