John Gruber:
My obsession is with wonderful, thoughtful software and gadgetry. I love the iPhone because it’s fucking amazing, not because it’s from Apple.
People that use Apple products love them because they are good. They get excited about new Apple products because Apple has a reputation for making good products. No one wants competing products to suck because that helps no one. It’s in everyone’s (consumer’s, competitor’s, even share holder’s) best interest for competing products to be great, even better than Apple’s equivalent. Like Gruber, I also desperately want Android to be fantastic but I don’t expect it.