"Steve has always pointed out that the biggest difference between Apple and all the other computer (and post-PC) companies through history is that Apple always tried to marry art and science. Jobs pointed out the original team working on the Mac had backgrounds in anthropology, art, history, and poetry. That’s always been important in making Apple’s products stand out. It’s the difference between the iPad and every other tablet computer that came before it or since. It is the look and feel of a product. It is its soul."
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The Top Ten Lessons Steve Jobs Can Teach Us - If We’ll Listen - Forbes
I wholly agree here. To that marriage of art and science has always been what makes Apple devices appealing to me. They simply feel different.
