I've always been baffled why anyone has ever purchased an Apple product for at least the past 10 years.

Reasonable arguments but android is hot garbage and I doubt all those phones are extra repair friendly

Thirty year old beefs from the Usenet era! Always compelling!

I've been aggressively anti-Apple for about as long as I knew about Apple. Proprietary connectors, complete disregard for backward compatibility, premium pricing on *everything*

But earlier this year I picked up an M1 Macbook Pro as I retired both my old Dell desktop and my previous laptop. The performance and the power consumption/battery life is too much to ignore now. Plus, it has a 2TB hard drive and 64gb of RAM, and at $2500 new in the box - the price is actually pretty good. It would have been nearly double that, new.

Everything's USB-C now. When I travel, I can bring one charger and it works on my phone, my computer, my earbuds, and if I bring it, my tablet. I don't really play video games anymore, but this thing has enough oomf for Sketchup and Twinmotion. And the latest Macbooks have made notable improvements on the repairability front.

It's still dumb that RAM and disk space isn't replaceable. I eked 12 years out of a Dell desktop before capitulating to the dark side.

No way I'm going back to iPhones though, those things suck. I've had a Pixel 3 and a Pixel 6 and they've both been pretty great.