There's a related Steve Jobs quote:

"When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."

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mitxela 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think this depends on your goal. You can plausibly make either a cabinet that is beautiful all the way through, or one that is beautiful on the outside without wasting money. Both are pretty reasonable choices.

	▲	doc_ick 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		It’s not just about the money, it could also be about being a perfectionist. Going that extra mile.
	▲	sneak 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> reasonable choices We are talking about fundamentally unreasonable people who make literally insane products. Some called them insanely great. We don’t want reasonable choices. We want change. Here’s to the crazy ones. (It breaks my heart that most in Apple management these days are quite thoroughly sane.)