Comment by musicale

> If you want your work to be valued (i.e. you don’t want to be reshuffled or fired), and you want to work on personally-satisfying features like accessibility, or UI polishing, or anything else not directly connected to profit - you need to go and work for a very profitable company.

"When we work on making our devices accessible by the blind, I don't consider the bloody ROI." -Tim Cook

Except that not-very-profitable Apple of the 1990s still cared about accessibility, UI, industrial design (PowerBook, Duo/dock, Newton, eMate...), and sustainability, even before the return of Steve Jobs and their subsequent meteoric rise. In the short run it probably looked like bad business, but Jony Ive started out on the Newton, after all...