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		Tichy on Dec 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Joel Spolsky's talk at Yale, part 1 I think deserve some credit for getting a hold on the hardware diversity mess. A problem that Apple never had to solve.

downer on Dec 12, 2007 [–]

They didn't customize their applications for different types of hardware, and drivers are made by the manufacturer, so this is a non-point.

Windows et al. were ugly, buggy and crashing due to software problems, not hardware.

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