29 ms·
> Steve didn't like our data center rack mounts being silver, we had to pull them all out and spray paint them black, because silver just wasn't acceptable, in
by codexjourneys 4y ago
> Steve didn't like our data center rack mounts being silver, we had to pull them all out and spray paint them black, because silver just wasn't acceptable, in a datacenter.
This strikes me as funny because of all the canonically silver iMacs and Macbooks that came afterward. Is black even an option?
- MaintenanceMode 4y agoSomewhere in Steve logic somethings are black, somethings are silver, that's just the way it is.
- spinlock 4y agoI think this is a huge part of his success. That clarity makes buying simpler for customers. You get the color that your device is supposed to be. Period.
- nso95 4y agoBoy have times changed
- spinlock 4y agoYou ain't kidding. Jobs gave people the choice of good, better, or best. That was it. 3 options and you probably already knew which one you were walking out with.
- sroussey 4y agoNow there are, what, six iPads? Not sure how people decide on anything not the cheapest or most expensive. There are four “middle” options.
- abudabi123 4y agoThe techspec page for the product is buried on the Apple Store app. Personalities such as MKBHD on YT is who I rely on to figure out what the product is targetted at.
- dehrmann 4y agoNow my iPhone is gray and my charger is white. What happened?!
- abudabi123 4y agoWith SJ gone Apple returned to the organization without taste driven by The Economist orthodoxy.
- diskzero 4y agoSteve loved black, until he loved glossy pastels, then rich Corinthian leather interfaces and then brushed aluminum. This was one of the most very frustrating things about designing user interfaces for him; once you figured out his internal design language, he would radically change it overnight!
- zaps 4y ago
- hackmiester 4y agoYeah, not to mention silver Xserves ("RackMacs").