Yea, Apple's vertical integration and absolute homogeneity are definitely big factors here. Also size of userbase, and the expectations of said users. (As someo

Yea, Apple's vertical integration and absolute homogeneity are definitely big factors here. Also size of userbase, and the expectations of said users. (As someone already mentioned folks buy Pine64 SBCs for 20-50 bucks for fun, to tinker, to run their hobby projects, but almost nobody buys an M1/M2 chipped device for thousands of dollars "for this funny little project".) But what I find very frustrating is that many software projects - especially open source ones - don't really think about the end-to-end user experience and don't have "interfaces" to help manage the UX, as in signal that the device is not respecting some standard/protocol/API/whatever. At best there's some obscure error message. Assertion failed. Blahblah. I mean ... I know there were latops with Ubuntu stickers, but it's just not a big thing - as far as I know. Sometimes niche manufacturers with some newsworthy feature (FOSS firmware, drivers, etc) get into the news, but that's why it's news, because there's just no run-of-the-mill boring supplier...