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> Steve didn't like our data center rack mounts being silver, we had to pull them all out and spray paint them black, because silver just wasn't acceptable, in a datacenter.

This strikes me as funny because of all the canonically silver iMacs and Macbooks that came afterward. Is black even an option?

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Steve loved black, until he loved glossy pastels, then rich Corinthian leather interfaces and then brushed aluminum. This was one of the most very frustrating things about designing user interfaces for him; once you figured out his internal design language, he would radically change it overnight!

Somewhere in Steve logic somethings are black, somethings are silver, that's just the way it is.

I think this is a huge part of his success. That clarity makes buying simpler for customers. You get the color that your device is supposed to be. Period.

Boy have times changed

Now there are, what, six iPads? Not sure how people decide on anything not the cheapest or most expensive. There are four “middle” options.

The techspec page for the product is buried on the Apple Store app. Personalities such as MKBHD on YT is who I rely on to figure out what the product is targetted at.

You ain't kidding. Jobs gave people the choice of good, better, or best. That was it. 3 options and you probably already knew which one you were walking out with.

Now my iPhone is gray and my charger is white. What happened?!

With SJ gone Apple returned to the organization without taste driven by The Economist orthodoxy.

Yeah, not to mention silver Xserves ("RackMacs").

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