I have fond memories of the fruit company taking the next step: removing the floppy drive bezel from the drive and instead having the floppy drive slot be part

I have fond memories of the fruit company taking the next step: removing the floppy drive bezel from the drive and instead having the floppy drive slot be part of the overall chassis front panel. Of course, their mechanical tolerances were nothing like they are today, so if you looked at the computer crosseyed, the front panel would fail to align to the actual internal disk path, and ejecting the disk would cause it to get stuck behind the front chassis panel. One could rescue it by careful wiggling with a tool to guide the disk through the slot or by removing the entire front panel. Meanwhile “PCs” had a functional but ugly rectangular opening the size of the entire drive, and the drive had its own bezel, and imperfect alignment between drive and case looked a bit ugly but had no effect on function. (I admit I’m suspicious that Apple’s approach was a cost optimization, not an aesthetic optimization.)