This thirdhand piece of information comes courtesy of something my mother read in the autobiography (?) of a Japanese woman who came to the US some time in the past.
Supposedly, in the course of cleaning her new home, she pulled the piano away from the wall and was shocked to find that that part of it meant to sit flush with the wall looked completely different (different wood, say) than the rest of it. To her, the piano should be viewable from any angle and any direction, no matter how it was intended to be installed in the home. To the American manufacturer, the appearance of the piano was of course highly significant -- but only the appearance of the parts you could see.
That's probably why Steve Jobs cared so much about how the inside of computers looked. He was obsessed with it. He probably read some Japanese book when he was in his youth and his culture became radically different in some way. Much more Japanese.
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This thirdhand piece of information comes courtesy of something my mother read in the autobiography (?) of a Japanese woman who came to the US some time in the past.
Supposedly, in the course of cleaning her new home, she pulled the piano away from the wall and was shocked to find that that part of it meant to sit flush with the wall looked completely different (different wood, say) than the rest of it. To her, the piano should be viewable from any angle and any direction, no matter how it was intended to be installed in the home. To the American manufacturer, the appearance of the piano was of course highly significant -- but only the appearance of the parts you could see.
That's probably why Steve Jobs cared so much about how the inside of computers looked. He was obsessed with it. He probably read some Japanese book when he was in his youth and his culture became radically different in some way. Much more Japanese.