> Compared to what Apple makes off hardware and service revenue
Really I wish people would wake up and stop with this bullshit.
Do the other manufacturers do anywhere near as much R&D as Apple does ? NO ! (2023: Lenovo 2bn vs Apple 29bn).
Do the other manufacturers maintain their own OS across multiple hardware platforms ? NO !
Its easy to sit in your armchair and spout crap about "well, Lenovo does it !". Well, the OS on your Lenovo is Windows or Linux. And the parts in your plastic Lenovo are almost certainly 100% off-the-shelf commodity parts.
Meanwhile Apple's R&D is what brings you, for example, the unmatched Apple Silicon chips, which everyone except the die-hard Apple bashers agree are genuinely industry leading.
Really, you've just proven my point. If Lenovo can support their hundreds/thousands of devices on a shoestring budget, Apple can support their few dozen devices easily. They've already written the device drivers and documented their non-commodity hardware, there's no technical reason it won't run other OSes.
I almost feel like you don't actually know what you're arguing against. An optionally-open bootloader is practically free to implement, and releasing driver code (or at least hardware docs) would mostly be an IP-related decision, not an effort-gated one. As-is, it feels like you're defending Apple's right to enforce petty limitations and be lazy with their trillion-dollar IP. It should be obvious why we (former Apple customers, some of us) disagree.
Lmao Apple R&D. Don't know what they're spending it on since they almost always adopt technologies that have already been developed + proven in the market.
So Apple Spends 29bn R&D every year, over many years and ends up developing...a really good version of (if not currently the best, sure) version of an ARM chip, a pre-existing architecture with which they are already intensely familiar? Wow, they're sure being real efficient with those funds.
I believe a lot of their performance gains pretty much just come down to larger die size than most ARM CPUs, making an SoC and colocating memory etc all on the same die, wrangling some of TMSC's newest most transistor dense and power efficient nodes. M1 Ultra=114b, 64 core graviton3=55b, hell people are even building stuff like https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/everything-ive-learne....
Apple went for a bunch of easy wins tbh. Why doesn't every other computer manufacturer do it? Well Apple is a $1T company; they control so many aspects of their products, OS, software etc so very easy for them to offer this. It would require a concerted effort on the part of so many companies involved in the ecosystems of non-Apple products to make a transition the same way Apple did.
Really I wish people would wake up and stop with this bullshit.
Do the other manufacturers do anywhere near as much R&D as Apple does ? NO ! (2023: Lenovo 2bn vs Apple 29bn).
Do the other manufacturers maintain their own OS across multiple hardware platforms ? NO !
Its easy to sit in your armchair and spout crap about "well, Lenovo does it !". Well, the OS on your Lenovo is Windows or Linux. And the parts in your plastic Lenovo are almost certainly 100% off-the-shelf commodity parts.
Meanwhile Apple's R&D is what brings you, for example, the unmatched Apple Silicon chips, which everyone except the die-hard Apple bashers agree are genuinely industry leading.