Font Rendering: Apple vs. the World, Including Adobe

So I created a graphic in Pages, and it looks good. Cept the picture that is part of the graphic is a tad grainy on PNG capture: the result image. So I fired up Photoshop and recreated it there. The image on PNG capture looks better: Photoshop is really about bitmap graphics, so the picture is more clear and accurate.
However, the text that is overlayed on the graphic does not look as good, neither do any of the icons. It's Arial Black, and the text as it looks on the Pages graphic that I created looks better in the PNG compared to what is pumping out of Photoshop. I also tried Illustrator, a vector based program. Same problem. The text doesn't look as good. Apple's Arial Black is tighter, thicker, juicier, cleaner, smoother, etc.
I say Apple's Arial Black because I can't figure out any other reason why the text is coming out of Pages differently than Adobe's wares. Check out the screen grabs (I have stripped out the high res photo: just interested in the text here):
Apple:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30203477@N04/5031004935/
Adobe Illustrator screen grab:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30203477@N04/5031000293/
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I believe this is the result of sub-pixel antialiasing (SPAA), which optimizes text appearance on laptops. Illustrator's rasterizing doesn't SPAA, which is fine for most CRTs, print, and LCD displays that might be rotated.
It's more a case of the OS being savvy enough to tell what kind of display you have and antialias appropriately. Illustrator's rendering engine does need to support SPAA.

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