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I don’t know that its what Apple does right but that the broader PC market continues to shoot itself in the foot. Little things like pre-installed bloatware and the inability to figure out smooth trackpad scrolling (still!) keep me firmly on Apple devices. And more recently, the M1 platform is remarkable, so I tip my hat to them for that and doing the basic stuff right (mostly—there have been blemishes obviously).


What floors me is I've had several hilariously cheap Chromebooks and they all have better trackpads than every single PC I've owned. How!?


Simple: because a single entity has responsibility for the entire product. PC's are built out of software from Microsoft, hardware from a random supplier (and probably a contractor who agreed to write a driver in a week), and a assembler/supplier like Dell or Lenovo who go for the lowest margin so can't and won't fix any of the mistakes of the other two parties.




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