Apple, like any company, had to learn how to properly craft things in an efficient and elegant way. They certainly didn’t do it right out of the gate. They did ship products that were a disaster inside, including iPhones and MacBooks. Foxconn publicly said Apple needs to get their act together if they ever want to manufacture and assemble things in an efficient and cost effective way. The complexity and amount of screws for certain products were crazy.

Now, with all that said, Apple has tried to improve in all these areas and have since been innovative in how things are actually put together.

So, the takeaway is if if the quote from Jobs did inspire people then it was a good thing.

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