John Gruber:
For one thing, they sweated the details. The greatest testimony to their genius is just how much of that original design is recognizable in today’s Mac OS X 10.9. A Mac user from 1984 could sit down in front of an iMac or MacBook today and recognize it as a successor to that original machine. That’s simply amazing.
John is so right. Apple sweated the details and they still do—that sets them apart from every other company.
Very interesting. As a relative new comer to all things Apple (5 years ago, what took me so long?), my appreciation of all this careful thought and consideration just grows and grows. And I love the keyboard shortcut consistencies, but have one small doubt, surely the Cmd-z Cmd-x Cmd-c Cmd-v sequence was taken from the DOS or CP/M world (which used Control key modifier but with the same letters?