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Apple always gets people riled up on here, it's one of the few areas on HN that discussions just get rather poor quickly. > If Apple's formula was easy to copy

Apple always gets people riled up on here, it's one of the few areas on HN that discussions just get rather poor quickly. > If Apple's formula was easy to copy or as obvious as everyone seems to claim, then we wouldn't be in the position where Apple has the best mobile CPU, the best wearable CPU, the best tablet CPU, and the best ultrabook CPU. Exactly. It isn't easy to do. Apple is in a unique position to push their platform to the absolute limit because of their vertical integration. And while that sacrifices openness, most people buying laptops just don't care.

ogre_codes 6y ago
> And while that sacrifices openness, most people buying laptops just don't care. This is it in a nutshell. I used Linux as my web development platform because I could immerse myself in Unix on both the server and client (Something you still can't do well in Windows FWIW). When OS X moved to Intel, suddenly I could live and breath something very close to my server side Linux setup on my desktop and have a fuss-free OS. Open is nice, but performance & just being able to get my job done effectively is much more important.