New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?

Ask HN: Why are there not more Apple-quality products?
13 by epicureanideal | 17 comments on Hacker News.
After all these years, Android phones still feel like cheap plastic to me, and the interface feels cheaply put together. Why aren't there more Apple-quality products? For example, couldn't someone make a great smartphone with limited models, a very tiny app store that doesn't have nearly the range of the Apple app store, but just enough to do common things for some small subset of the market? Same question about why there isn't one polished Linux-based operating system, etc.