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Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by rdonahue »

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Hmmm, that's why he's making all these crazy decision, because his office looks like yours or mine? I thought it was because his job is to create products that people like and buy while raising the stock price. Seeing as how AAPL has gone from $64.56 to $307.04 over the past 5 years, I'd say these crazy decisions are working out pretty damn well, huh?

Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by Timothee »

Actually his house, as presented on allaboutstevejobs.com, is very rustic and far away from Apple's clean industrial design. I'm actually surprised to find that kind of home in Palo Alto: I'd expect this in Normandy, not around here :)

From that website too: the last picture of this set http://allaboutstevejobs.com/pics/places/paloalto/paloalto.h... shows that his home office hasn't changed much in many many years based on the huge laptop he's using.

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Post by gacba »

Given the effort he puts into simple, minimalist designs for the Mac, it's a bit surprising that kind of fastidiousness isn't present in his office organization, too. But it's not in mine either, so I'm no pot and he's no kettle. Even if it's an old pic, it's still fun to see the human side of a man so often put on a pedestal.

Re: Steve Jobs' Not-So-Minimalist Home Office

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Post by prs »

danilocampos wrote: post #4

One thing that's interesting: Steve dogfooding that single button mouse. Image was from 2004, but still – figured he'd be using a multi-button mouse like the rest of us were back then.

As far as I remember there was no multi-button mouse by Apple in 2004.
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