I take the state of things as more a strong indictment of the rest of the industry, than Apple's being super-duper awesome. Turns out pretty-good is, like, way

I take the state of things as more a strong indictment of the rest of the industry, than Apple's being super-duper awesome. Turns out pretty-good is, like, way better than the rest. :-( I guess that's what you get with a market of this shape, having very few viable options, all mutually incompatible, plus all tied in with perverse incentives from other parts of their various vertically-integrated behemoth-corporations—even Linux suffers from what sure looks like some fire-and-motion action from Red Hat, I assume aimed at keeping them on top in the support & consulting game. Ubuntu tries something similar off-and-on, but just aren't as good at executing on those plans and have mostly failed. Really, one of the most remarkable things about Apple is that they do a good job of aligning most of their own incentives with things that provide some kind of significant benefit to users, even if it's arguably only as a side-effect.