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Steve Jobs was famously obsessive about design, inside and out, call it showing off or whatever you want. He believed the internals of Apple products, like the
by kylebenzle 2y ago
Steve Jobs was famously obsessive about design, inside and out, call it showing off or whatever you want. He believed the internals of Apple products, like the original Macintosh, should be just as beautiful as the exterior, even if users never saw them. This attention to detail reflected his commitment to craftsmanship and quality.
Source: Walter Isaacson's Steve Jobs biography.
- thechao 2y agoMy grandmother (she'd've been ~118, now) taught me to sew. There's specific techniques for turning down interior hems. That is, imagine a jacket: it has a shell, and a lining; I'm talking about a specific kind of hem for material between the shell and the lining. The finish work of that hem had no bearing on the quality of the item — it just demonstrated to the next tailor working on the jacket that you'd spent the time to finish the parts only they would see. And, goddamn, it doubled the effort for finishing a jacket.
- nine_k 2y agoFortunately, the tendencies for neatness and build quality reinforce each other. (Sadly, Sir Ive's obsession with thinness and minimalism did not mesh with actual ergonomics equally well.)