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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by symlinkk on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @02:28PM (#15230020)
It's completely because of Apple's hardware design. No one else does touchpads as well as Apple and you literally interact with a touchpad every time you use the damn thing. Apple's cases and batteries and screens are also top 5 in the world as well.

You can tell that this is the stuff that's holding people back from other devices because when a manufacturer actually makes a product with solid hardware - like the Surface - people started to buy them.

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Re:Wal-Mart Offers Linux as Windows Alternative (2003) by alkonaut on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @04:54AM (#15236584)
They are also pretty good at integration (e.g. iOS with MaccOS) and at UI. Look at UI scaling on high dpi screens in Windows/linux and compare it to OS X.

Also of course the fact that OS X gets you both big commercial software for e.g. media creation and a unix-y machine.

So I wouldn't explain it with hardware alone, I think others have cought up pretty well compared to say 10 years ago.

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