Re:Apple's attention to detail
by nerfhammer on Thursday August 26, 2010 @11:53AM
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Jobs loves symmetry. Look at his choices in design for mice: symmetrical even to the point of being harder to use.
Spheres are more symmetrical than cubes though. Cubes are symmetrical about a high but still finite number of planes--spheres are symmetrical about an infinite number of planes. But I guess it's harder to get a sphere to sit still on your desk, or to fit computer guts into it.
Re:Apple's attention to detail
by nerfhammer on Thursday August 26, 2010 @01:59PM
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The hockey puck mouse exhibited radial symmetry
Here's a design patent for the glass staircase, listing Jobs as lead designer: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
Amusing if true: the glass cube outside the Manhattan Apple Store was designed by Steve Jobs himself, and the lease stipulates that it is his personal property and he has the right to remove it at the end of the lease: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/05/12/05/jobs_wants_32_...
(If I ever had the balls to ask Steve Jobs a completely inane question, I would ask what the hell it was with him and cubes.)