From what I understand Jobs was probably fine with using the Apple logo on the physical key, the problem was rather displaying the logo everywhere in the menus, where the shortcuts are displayed. That would have been way too much indeed.
At some point, they also required ctrl to be pressed along side reset to prevent it from being accidentally triggered (it was right next to the return key). Reset on its own terminated the currently running program (as opposed to ctrl-c which stopped a BASIC program but you could resume the program—this was an early means of debugging since you could do things like PRINT A$ to see the value of A$ at the time that you stopped the program or even alter program variables before resuming).
There was one occasion when someone at my high school was experiencing great frustration because every time he did ctrl-reset, the computer rebooted. It turned out that a book was sitting on top of the paddles depressing the button.
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The original Mac keyboards (serial, with the telephone handset connector) did not have the open apple symbol. I don't recall any Mac applications making reference to the open Apple key, it was always "Command Key." From the Mac side, "open apple" was a colloquialism.
My keyboard doesn't have any key for the symbol ⌥ or ⌘, either. Or do you mean that all the other modifier keys on Mac-branded keyboards are labelled with their symbols, whereas shift isn't?
Do they? I thought all Apple-branded keyboards used the symbols (except, as bin_bash points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33036804), for shift).
> Plus make common keyboard shortcuts require multiple modifier keys.
You can also change keyboard shortcuts system-wide. It's not an argument against good defaults, but it does allow you to relieve the pain.