Indeed, the hardware on Lenovo's is reasonably good, but if you are an enterprise trying to move away from Windows, the hit-or-miss Linux support somewhat limits your options. From experience, running Linux ( RHEL / CentOS 6.x) on ThinkPads can be a frustrating experience, not sure if that is a limitation of drivers or of the ancient Gnome 2 desktop interface.
I don't blame Apple for this. Remember it wasn't till 2008 that the App Store launched because developers were not satisfied by creating web apps.
Secondly, the concept of being able to link directly to parts of an app via a URL already exists in Android. Maybe Apple just needs to play catch up there?