Basically, some people get hung up on features and specs, while others prefer the experience. The quality. The feel.
In other words, some people seem to have an issue with amazing design, and would rather have something cheaper feeling, and largely inferior, in order to gain a few features they'll never use. Much like the MBP haters who would rather have a hot, noisy, battery eating, plastic POS because it was cheaper than an MBP and has more specz0rz. Apple is about the design, and they are amazing engineers. Every Apple product is a masterpiece of engineering. For that reason, they will IMO always be ahead in terms of quality and innovation. The haters will disagree. The entire world has been duped by Steve into thinking that Apple products are awesome to use. Specs are more important. The irony there being that they've been sucked into the specs marketing hype by every other manufacturer that has nothing else to offer.