Elementary OS: The essence of Mac in a Linux distribution.

For over twenty years I've been using Apple computers as a Graphic Designer. Apple built the hardware and offered a choice and a tool set that was not available on any other machine. Over time I invested in hardware and lots of software. The hardware was stylish very well built and competitively priced, Apple's software was intuitive and simple. Over time the hardware is undeniable well built but options have been sacrificed to make the all the machines slimmer. The software has undergone the same process, a slimming to create a more intuitive experience, the result less capability.

When I began looking at Linux it was to regain that sense of ownership which I had when I brought my first Mac. A sense that I was making a choice, not following the PC herd and being rewarded for it. I moved from OpenSuse, to Fedora and eventually to Ubuntu.  I think Canonical is trying to make a jump from the Linux community to the wider world, my only reservation is I think that another team has created an experience which beats them to the punch. Elementary OS is obviously inspired by Apple's OS X but manages to combines it with the open source community to create an operating system that has a feel all of its own.
Form and function have been proven time and time again to go hand in hand. I have often found it frustrating when discussing Linux operating systems that attractiveness is seen as un-serious. If Elementary OS could attract commercial software such as Adobe to port their software Apple would have rival in the software market which offered a much wider choice of hardware. 

What do you think? Can Elementary make that leap?