[Hack&Lube]

I never get tired of Steve Jobs the used car salesman, but he sure knows how to sell the things to the public that people want.

“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” - Steve Jobs

Most of the article was about Aqua (yeah, it looked like candy, of course I wanted to lick it) which I couldn't stand along with the entire Apple design ethos from GUI to industrial design. It's still highly unpleasant as ever (to me) today, although I loved the big black boxes and straight edges of Jobs' NeXT cubes.

I've recently been playing with Linux distros, especially Ubuntu (already a brilliant interface out of the box but still a little too rounded and a little too orange) and really appreciate the ability to completely tweak every last bit of the interface extremely easily to be exactly how anybody wants it.

I do always like reading the stories from the transitional era at Apple when Jobs came back in and cut everyone down to size. It was like a King returning to his kingdom to reign in terror but he got the job done.