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It only looks busy because of the clutter which is not part of the office design so much as just some stuff he hasn't found time to clean up.
The clutter is all temporary stuff for work, not permanent features of the office.
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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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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Most people were using third-party multibutton mice. They worked just fine.
I'd bet against "most", but who knows.
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…
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.
I want the giant-sized NeXT Cube-front wall hanging in picture 4 of the "Steve at the NeXT Factory" set.