The opportunity for competition exists” is the most true statement and response to everyone grumbling about Apple dominance. Somewhere, somehow, the ecosystem of competitors has failed to execute, got lazy, etc and now is looking to regulators to bail them out. It makes me a bit sick. Apple is nothing more than a computing stack wrapped in a portfolio of consumer products. They happen to see this future early, invested aggressively in it, from silicon to security and everyone got caught with their pants down.
– Comment on Hacker News.
This was in a discussion about Apple’s successor chip to the M1. This comment acknowledges that the company’s success is more than simply slick marketing and product pricing. They have tackled a hard engineering problem, optimised for performance (and power consumption) over compatibility, and have _also_ packaged it well.