Well, yes, Apple designs products for rich people in the first world who have always-on fast internet (have you seen the sheer size of Apple point updates?!). Microsoft designs far more inclusive products.
And judging by the popular success of the iPad I have to disagree with the suggestion that Apple is less inclusive.
Well, they might have fixed it then. All I know is that I balked at the 1GB OS X update waiting for me.
And judging by the popular success of the iPad I have to disagree with the suggestion that Apple is less inclusive.
The iPad is only popular in rich first world countries. You will find tons of PCs running Windows in not-so-rich countries, orders of magnitude more. That is exactly my point.
New technologies tend to be adapted by first world countries first. This was as true of the original IBM PC as it is today for the iPad.
At very least in Bangkok, which is obviously not belongs to rich first world countries, I can see iPad (and Galaxy Tab) everywhere on a train or even in a not-so-expensive restaurant. My not-so-rich neighbor bought an iPad few weeks ago and ask if I could help him setup Wi-Fi, etc.
Maybe I have an Apple-fan Attraction Field turned on or something, but I've found iPad-availablity around me to be pretty amazing. It's hard to deny that Windows-running PCs are still orders of magnitude more but it's still amazing.