Its mostly true when the integrating company cares for the user experience. Which apple clearly does.

The example you shared is the opposite. I am imagining a kernel today written in a manner that airpods would be able to use it to extract the max out of it. Now, it has to support 10 other third party pods, so at the minimum, kernel would be more generalized.

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ngetchell 7 hours ago | parent [-]

A company that produces a wireless mouse that charges upside down really does not care about user experience.

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musicale 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Steve Jobs loved the iMac's terrible hockey puck mouse. Jony Ive is probably to blame for the terrible (yet very thin) butterfly keyboard making it into Apple laptops. However, these missteps do not prove that Apple doesn't care about user experience.

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throwaway314155 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> told disgruntled iPhone 4 users that they were holding their phones wrong

That was never proven. Although their PR response was atrocious.

	▲	musicale 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> That was never proven “All phones have sensitive areas,” Jobs wrote. “Just avoid holding it in this way.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-ant... https://www.macrumors.com/2010/06/24/steve-jobs-describes-ip... Jobs wasn't exactly wrong - bridging the antenna with your finger was not a good way to hold the iPhone 4. What's hilarious is how they "fixed" it in software - by changing the signal bar display curve, and then making the lower bars appear taller. https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/08/a-15-year-mystery-solved-the-...