[nameiscarl]

Bloated application : itunes. Clunky user experience : finder. Bug ridden OS updates : you know the ones. And best of all, offering two ways to run Windows on your Apple branded hardware : bootcamp and parallels :p

Fortunately, there are also upsides. The ios app store (even if all the major mobile app stores launched in 2008) was a godsend and lifted from linux package managers. At least, that's how I see it.

Black and white is boring. Shades of grey are more interesting. Unless there are 50 of them.

[akldfgj]

Weird to call the flagships products un-Apple-like. Do they not define Apple-like de facto?

[mikeash]

How was the iOS app store lifted from Linux package managers? The main characteristic of Linux package managers, as I see it, is dependency management. Third-party iOS apps aren't allowed to have any external dependencies outside of the OS, so there is no dependency management. Installing an iOS app is just a matter of downloading it and unpacking it.

[akldfgj]

From dpkg to Ubuntu Software Center, update managers have provided a list of installable software that can be downloaded from a repository, similar in functionality to the App Store UI. (Ubuntu's UI is most like Apple's, but I don't know which came first.)