Gourmet Software

In a Time interview with Jobs:

"He needs that control because he is fastidious about technology the way a gourmet is fastidious about foie gras, and he recognizes that in an increasingly networked world, in which gadgets can't just do their own thing but have to talk to one another, that conversation will go better if Jobs has scripted both sides of it. "One company makes the software. The other makes the hardware ... It's not working," Jobs says. "The innovation can't happen fast enough. The integration isn't seamless enough. No one takes responsibility for the user interface. It's a mess.""

Having just bought a Mac and being complete awestruck by it's quality, this statement hit it home for me. I feel the same way about the software I use and I makes me happy to have purchased something from somebody like Jobs.

I like experiemental software to experiment with. I like throw away software to use for a short time and then throw away. And I like well designed software to use daily.