It isn't that Apple has better designers or programmers, but they have a culture that thrives on quality, innovation and just plain building better products tha

It isn't that Apple has better designers or programmers, but they have a culture that thrives on quality, innovation and just plain building better products than the competition. Here's a great post on that: http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/07/05/how-many-of-your-teams-ideas-are-in-the-iphone-2/ http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/07/05/how-many-of-your... "... [Apple] is a company with leadership who has the fortitude to take the risk, find the budget, and push the technology for the single cause of designing compelling user experiences. Apple got it right."