> what iMac did for computers in about year 1999

Ehrm. What is that exactly?

Are you alluding to cute design, different user interface? Or ditching then common PC component modularity? "Thinking differently"?

One difference is that Oxide development was done in the open and they don't seem hell bent on creating a closed ecosystem. (Yet, at least)

I think Oxide shares one idea with Apple: hardware and software should be created for each other. In that sense, your parent is correct.

You are also correct that we diverge from Apple in other ways, such as our commitment to openness, rather than secrecy.

Yes. I imagine I got downvoted because it sounds like a snark but it wasn’t meant to be.

> Ehrm. What is that exactly?

The first iMac famously made it easy to connect to the Internet; The 'i' in iMac was for "Internet". Its setup manual was a couple of pages long, mostly pictures and IIRC, just 37 words.

Brutal downvotes. I guess people forget the old Jeff Goldblum commercials? "There is no step 3."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX4PzvWgu6c