Yes, this is a very important part, which reminds me of this old gem

There will come a time when you get sick of having to worry about choosing between DDR2 or DDR3, different memory speeds and clock timings, CPU sockets, Graphic Cards, driver versions, registry tweaks and stuff like that. I know I was.

I built my own PC's for at least 12 years before I lost interest in harware configuration. I first switched to using different prebuilt PC brands like Dell and IBM (for work) to at least get a computer that was reasonably quiet. Yes I did try out watercooling, but while being more quiet, it was not exactly maintenance free.
The I switched to a MacPro and OS X as my primary workstation at work. Mostly because Visual Studio link times were horrible and also because I found out that OS X is a great developer platform with it's UNIX internals. I will never go back. I happily leave the hardware tuning to Apple so that I can spend my time developing instead.

BTW, my work desktop has 8 cores and can have at least 32 GB of RAM. It's very fast, and what Apple does well is that they don't cheap out when it comes to IO performance, which is what matters most when developing. It was probably really expensive, but it doesn't matter that much when it's company paid.
At home i use a 27" iMac with a quad core i7. Again, quite expensive, but worth every penny specifically because I don't have to worry about hardware configuration.

And just to point out - I don't consider myself a fanboy. I don't care at all about Steve Jobs, or Apple as a company. I just found out that they made great performing, quiet and nice looking computers with a very nice OS that lets me focus on what I do for a living.

...according to the test developers.

According to wired:

The funny thing about the umlauts is that danish doesn't even have them. They use å, æ and ø, while we swedes however use å, ä and ö for (almost) the same sounds. Metal band names with umlauts, like motörhead and mötley crüe really messes with our heads, and it took me a good 15 years before I found out that I had been pronouncing them wrong all the time...

Now all we need is for someone to start a "Virtual Machine Foundation", and an "Operating System Foundation".

Nice try trolling, but it's actually the other way around. Apple has always shipped their own version of java. They just stop doing that now, and let Oracle do the work instead, just like on Windows or Linux.

Well, in that case the Linux desktop will be pretty successful, considering the amount of people, me included, that just wouldn't accept a cloud-based OS with a touch interface.

Or even from iTunes Music Store. They haven't had DRM on their music since march 2009.

I buy all my music from eMusic. It's a subscription based service and they sell you music from all but the biggest labels for about half the price of iTunes's.
All music is in high quality MP3's and once you bought them, you can download them again and again on any number of computers.

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They have already worked (and continue to work) together in bringing Remote Play to some phones, so I don't think it would be impossible.

In the case of GCC, yes, but they could have kept WebKit, Darwin, LLVM, OpenSSH/SSL and lots of other source modifications to themselves if they wanted to.

Actually, it has both.

That's not iPods. They are called "ninja flash bombs".