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Re:ElementaryOs Luna released by jorgecastillo on Saturday August 10, 2013 @11:16PM (#6193689)
OS X & Linux are not direct competitors, they are in different market segments. Extensive hardware support is not that important to end users. The important thing is that the OS supports well the individual hardware you use.
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Re:ElementaryOs Luna released by hrjet on Sunday August 11, 2013 @05:54AM (#6194538)
Hardware support matters to end users in terms of portability of app data. If I use an app which is not ported to other platforms, I can't use my data in a new hardware, until the platform itself is ported.

If the data has an open format, then this problem is reduced, but many applications out there have a proprietary data format.

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