Apple does better quality. While I am not married to Apple, my association with Apple began with the 1984 Macintosh. It cost 60K less than the more-or-less equivalent Xerox Star System I was considering for my publishing services business. It operated more smoothly. Everything worked together. The same applies today. Macintoshes—called Macs today—provide business value for eight or more years and very seldom need servicing. Today, I replace each Mac every eight years—sometimes a little sooner just for fun. But I am still using a 2008 Aluminum MacBook—the original aluminum Mac. It never goes on the web, but runs fine. I replaced its original hard drive with an SSD and run Snow Leopard. Snow Leopard is basically Darwin (Apple Unix) with a cool user interface. It does email, music, ebooks, photos, movies. It also runs TeX nicely and Perl, two of my primary publishing tools. My more modern system uses current Macs, iPhones, iPads, Homepods, Apple TV, HomeKit products… Everything works together well. Apple does not stick its ears and nose into my life. Amazon is cool for shopping, but I see no reason to use its electronic products, or products by Google or Meta—no way. I do like Alexa and do not trust Google or Meta. This is just my experience and preference. I am not the final authority on anything.
