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By PC, I meant pre-built system such as those from Dell or HP.
Remember that Windows stole a lot from Macintosh and Android wholesale ripped off iOS.
I find Samsung and quality in the same sentence an oxymoron.
Again, how many game changers have companies like Samsung, Microsoft, Dell, or HP released?
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Only reason Android exists is because Eric Schmidt was on the board at Apple and heard that Apple is making a mobile OS, so he left and started the Android project at google.
Android is the least user friendly OS I've ever seen. The user fragmentation is a joke. The hardware and software are similar to what Windows and PCs are, they are not intertwined. Even the Google Pixel....same thing.
Apple is never the first, but they do it right. Sometimes they fail, sometimes they win. They're a very pragmatic company (especially under Jobs) that is willing to rid of old dogma quickly, unlike other companies like HP, Dell, Samsung. They remind me of Sony electronics division which used to experiment and make a bunch of products and dump them if it didn't work.
Also Apple reinvented the streamlined precision Chinese manufacturing that literally every company now from Huawei, Samsung, etc are taking advantage of. This all started with the iPhone and the Unibody MacBook, which both were at least 5 years ahead of the competition.
Now show me a phone or a laptop that doesn't look like an Apple ripoff in one way or another? You can't.
When a smartphone or a tablet can be used from anyone from the age of 6 to 96, there is something there. Apple is one of the only companies that understands and spends a lot of money in R&D for User Interfaces, and even in the 80s they used to hire Frog Design in SF which would make them guides and experimental products for user interfaces.
You should see people's faces when they first use an iOS device, they light up. Especially older people who have never been tech savvy. It takes a second to show them how something is done, or they discover it themselves. Younger people are different now as they grew up with these devices from a very small age.
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