“We thought about applying it to other hardware, but if Dell makes a small little machine, you don’t know that they’ll be making that, in that form factor, six

“We thought about applying it to other hardware, but if Dell makes a small little machine, you don’t know that they’ll be making that, in that form factor, six months down the road, or what they’re going to do, or how they’re going to refresh it,” This is completely upside-down. Apple's future plans are entirely opaque. When Dell releases an Optiplex desktop, Poweredge server, or Latitude laptop they commit to not making changes for some non-trivial amount of time so that corporate images don't need to be fiddled with.