My mobile email clients threading is awful so I dont actually know who said the below quoted phrase, nor can I reply below it....

but the below philosophy I think is absolutely the right approach. I think it is already working as you can see in the media with the past few releases Fedora's general perception is more and more positive.

where I want to know more, is how is this possible for an open source project? 

is this the *first* fedora f, where we get the awesome functionality first? while this is good, i do worry that folks using fedora for casual use rather than hardcore linux fans dont update so frequently for fedora having a feature first being a big deal. eg flatpak has nade it easier than ever to get the newest inkscape or gimp or whatever (sorry this is just pertinent to my little subcommunity but can be extrapolated) without updating the entire OS. 

are there other ways to differentiate as an open source project? is it the integration and default configs? is there a focus on that now? (i dont know.)

is it in the variety and quality of apps on top of the platform? 

i dont know. what do you have in mind?

But if we need to go over it again, lets do it: Fedora needs to first and foremost differentiate
with awesome functionality.