My apologies for being irritatingly pedantic. I should have mentioned how much I loved your post. I am currently working on Machine/Deep Learning at Intel and I agree with your central premise. I’ve struggled with the “Is AI generated art really ‘Art’?” question myself.
I think it is important to understand that macOS (and it’s underlying core: the open-source Darwin project) and Windows do not operate in the same ways. Their end goals are the same (e.g. support a file system, display a GUI, etc.) but they implement those features in vastly different ways. Thus, any given hardware component will execute at it’s maximum clock speed, data rate, etc. no matter what operating system it is running. Also remember that it is possible to build a Hackintosh (PC hardware that runs macOS) that vastly outperforms anything you can buy directly from Apple.
In the end I think that for 99.9999% of your readership yours is a good analogy. It just doesn’t jive for that one guy who worked as an engineer at both Apple and Microsoft. ;-)
