alt Hacker NewsHe famously shipped the original Macintosh with a keyboard without arrow keys to force buyers to use the mouse.
His vision of perfection didn't always match common sense. There are quite a few examples of this.
I always cringe a little when I read these "jobs would have rolled over in his grave" comments.
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philwelch • today at 3:00 PM
Jobs was a perfectionist and a minimalist. Part of minimalism is that sometimes you delete marginal features (arrow keys) that you still end up wanting back.
If you never delete too many features, you aren’t deleting enough features.
He would've not let the abysmal slop like iOS 26 UI to ship ever.
Some things he didn't appear to care much about, the polished UX was his schtick.