General trends? Yes, of course. But at Jobs's very last WWDC event, they demoed a lot of new Mac developments for Lion that specifically (not generally) mirrored some of the features going into Gnome Shell after (very public) design iteration. At the time, I came away saying that it was basically "Gnome Shell, rotated 90 degrees".
Not sure what "open-source Linux community" means to you, besides a phrase that can be used to denigrate and diminish the work of people who have skill and vision by associating them with unrelated projects that lack polish.
You're also doing a pretty annoying thing where, rather than engaging with someone on the topic of discussion, you instead appeal to the audience's intuition and essentially suggest that the conversation need not happen because the other side can be dismissed outright due to Common Sense things that everyone Knows. (It's a great tactic when your goal is to prevent anyone from taking something seriously because serious examination would necessarily lead to confronting something uncomfortable.)
Not sure what "open-source Linux community" means to you, besides a phrase that can be used to denigrate and diminish the work of people who have skill and vision by associating them with unrelated projects that lack polish.
You're also doing a pretty annoying thing where, rather than engaging with someone on the topic of discussion, you instead appeal to the audience's intuition and essentially suggest that the conversation need not happen because the other side can be dismissed outright due to Common Sense things that everyone Knows. (It's a great tactic when your goal is to prevent anyone from taking something seriously because serious examination would necessarily lead to confronting something uncomfortable.)