why a part of D community do not want go to D2 ?

[Daniel Gibson]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
> On 11/9/10 5:38 PM, Daniel Gibson wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 2:19 AM, Boris Wang<kona.ming at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> First, forgive my poor english.
>>> we all known , Walter good at compiler writing, but not good at language
>>> design and development management , if can't change this, just be silent.
>>
>> If he isn't good at language design (in other words: D sucks): why do
>> you care about D? Why are you here?
>>
>>> I think, on language desgin, wisdom and leadership are more more
>>> important
>>> than technology.
>>
>> Well, the development process of D could be better organized (having a
>> schedule and roadmap and such)..
>> But "wisdom and leadership" doesn't help much if nobody's there to
>> implement stuff. I think we're better of this way than having someone
>> who's "wiser" (what is that supposed to mean in this context anyway?)
>> and a better leader, but can't code.
>>
>>> Ether continue working on D, or make D like clone,  if we can't do it
>>> like
>>> APPLE, just give up ASAP,
>>> because we can only save us by our selves.
>>
>> Sorry, I can't make any sense of that sentence.
>
> I think he meant "We should all either continue working on D or make a
> D-like clone. If we can't do it like Apple, we should just give up ASAP.
> Only the community can save the situation."
>
> Andrei
>

What's meant with "do it like Apple"? Is that some kind of idiom I'm
not familiar with?
He certainly couldn't have meant that literally, because making D
overpriced and proprietary would certainly not help.