I think it’s too general an assertion to draw any conclusions from, to be honest: there’s about the same distance from Windows 95 (or System 7.5) to the introdu

I think it’s too general an assertion to draw any conclusions from, to be honest: there’s about the same distance from Windows 95 (or System 7.5) to the introduction of Mac OS X as there is from OS X to iOS. Take Intel and Microsoft Windows out of the equation, and it becomes rather clear that security and stability arise from decent software development with good, hardware-sympathetic tools on a power-per-watt competent platform. And I give credit to AMD for essentially keeping Windows PCs alive as a platform: at each OS inflection point, they’ve provided, far more so than Intel, the extra performance-per-watt that papers over Windows’ shortcomings to provide a better multimedia experience.