It's hard to imagine Steve wasting time creating trivial, hand-made decorations on an artifact of little utility and extreme production cost.
The iPod is incomparably more beautiful.
Work smart, not hard.
Your response is typical of the philistinism so prevelant on FR. It is tragic, and repugnant that the high level of artisanship and love of beauty that characterize that piece are dismissed as “trivial”.
What next, burning the Mona Lisa as fuel?
It also mystifies me that on a news group described as conservative.I encounter so many with no knowledge, respect or appreciation of the tradtions of the past.