""When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
And yet, HFS+ is still there.
I'd prefer that the carpenter build the strongest/lightest product, only worrying about looks where someone can see it and strength where it matters.
To me the value of solid wood throughout is durability. If a composite material was better why not use it?
Steve Jobs was referring to plywood as an inferior material used not for any advantage except cost and ease of installation. His point was that if you care about quality in an all-encompassing way, not just as a means to an end, you're going to care about the quality of things that your customers will rarely or never see.
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I'm not throwing out all my cables at the 3 year MAX point.
I'm in A/V services, so we'll use and reuse 50-200ft stretches of HDMI, and the Amazon HDMIs are top notch. Of course, we're not the typical user of HDMI, but FWIW, they are pretty solid.
How often do you actually feel or see your HDMI cable? If you're setting things up correctly, you shouldn't be doing either very often.