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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
However I do strongly admire his focus on producing quality hardware and refusing compromises on that front.
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He refused to compromise on aesthetics, and, as a result, quality suffered. The well-known examples are:
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Apple III
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Steve Jobs, who supervised the project, gave ridiculous demands to the development team including dimensions that were too small to fit all the components, and no cooling fan, because they were 'too noisy and inelegant'.
The result was that the motherboard got hot and warped, eventually causing some chips to come loose in their sockets, which would cause system malfunctions.
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NeXT:
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I admired taking bold steps like not having a floppy or hard disk, but it's only worthwhile when it works out. The first NeXT Cube had too many problems.
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Another Jobs-inflicted problem was that the NeXT had a very expensive die-cast magnesium case, even though it was a workstation for technical people who would have preferred a hard drive to a pretty case.
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iPhone 4:
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Apple Engineer Told Jobs IPhone Antenna Might Cut Calls . . . The latest model of the iPhone carries a metal antenna that surrounds the outside of the device -- a design chosen by Apple executives because it yielded a lighter, thinner handset.
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It's true that many Apple products from the Jobs era were rated in
Consumer Reports as having superior quality, but the same was true during the decade (1985-1995) when he did not work for Apple.