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Honestly I think it is because there is a real disdain, or at least disrespect, toward the arts amongst many technologists and at many technology companies. The

Honestly I think it is because there is a real disdain, or at least disrespect, toward the arts amongst many technologists and at many technology companies. They treat art and design as just an extra thing you do at the end, rather than a key philosophy that informs the entire product design process. This applies to graphic design, product design, even fashion. This is very much unlike Apple (under Jobs at least.) Jobs talked repeatedly about the importance of the arts, of typography, and so on. You rarely hear the same comments from other hardware company CEOs.

ryandrake 4y ago
> You rarely hear the same comments from other hardware company CEOs. The vast majority of hardware companies don't know a thing about making great software. To them, software is just some other line item on the BOM, like a screw or rubber gasket, that you procure or build for as little cost as possible. Fasten six screws at station 1, glue on the dingdong module at station 14, and then just scoop some barely working software into the product at the very end of the assembly line. Just make it functional enough to not cause the customer to return the hardware. Look at the iconography and typography on something like a digital picture frame, or even a modern TV's settings menu. They look like clipart resized by someone who doesn't know what 'aspect ratio' means. It probably all is clipart and bitmap fonts downloaded from some web site. These companies don't give a single shit about aesthetics and polish and it shows.