I don’t think it factored in much to his thinking beyond market acceptance. The mass market mostly didn’t seem to care much about accessibility. Special purpose

I don’t think it factored in much to his thinking beyond market acceptance. The mass market mostly didn’t seem to care much about accessibility. Special purpose users do, but that’s a smaller market. I think for Steve Jobs the point was beauty, simplicity, and anti-fragility. A machine with tons of ports, openings, mechanical parts, and janky software is one that breaks easily. Jobs hated things that were janky and that’s consistent throughout his career. In the earlier days, making things work required expansion slots and mechanical parts. When those things ceased to be required, Apple did away with them.