Maybe some folk prefer the alternatives, and that’s fair, but if you did some pretty objective metrics of bugs, visual inconsistencies, user workflows for standard tasks (like adding new hardware…) well, it’s impossible to deny that Apple has significantly invested in making these things “nice”.
Its really quite difficult to argue the software is really the compelling offering with Framework laptops.
You can already get that on other systems if that’s your thing, and that’s never been enough to do more than barely raise a few eyebrows from folk who are particularly keen.
It's like I'm using my bike to ride down a mountain... you are using your bike to do city racing and don't understand why skinny tires and fixed gear and foot straps are not important to me.
Again, subjective.
How can you possibly argue that the army of programmers Apple has devoted to working on this one stack in one domain do less work than the widely distributed work done by a far smaller number of programmers on a far larger number of desktop stacks?
Don't be ridiculous.
I didn't say that the outcomes were better, just that more effort has been put in, in terms of hours-of-human effort.
That's a very different statement to "Apple has more person-years." In addition, by that measure, Windows is just as good, and works just fine on a Framework.
Without starting flames... let's agree this is subjective.
For many people the options for the Framework are preferable.