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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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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.

Most people were using third-party multibutton mice. They worked just fine.

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

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These images are from six years ago.

That wasn't really the point. The point was that Jobs' decisions might be crazy to some but they seem to be working. If you want to be pedantic though six years ago was 2004. AAPL was at $27.58. Five years prior it was at $9.92.

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

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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.

Right – their first was the Mighty Mouse, introduced in '05. It's just interesting to me that Jobs was consistent enough in his beliefs supporting one button mice that he even used one himself. His use of a computer is certainly frequent and deep enough to benefit from a more powerful mouse.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most people were using third-party multibutton mice. They worked just fine.

I'd bet against "most", but who knows.

Nah, I'm sure you're right if you take it literally. There was supposed to be an implied "among people who gave a crap about their computers."

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

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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 ba…

FWIW, I expect he was running OpenStep on that laptop.

Supposedly he kept using OpenStep on an Intel laptop after he returned to Apple. I suppose he switched once OS X was running on PowerBooks.

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