You’re probably the kind of customer Apple is targeting. Not demanding or knowing other companies offer the same experience and even better for a fraction of the cost. Together with that those other companies don’t lock you in and are trying to keep you by innovating their products so you can experience those benefits out of free will.
I’m happy for you that you’re satisfied but don’t spread the fuzz that Apple is the only company able to integrate their software and services at a level nobody can touch. That’s so 2010.
As you’ve could have noticed there isn’t much going on at Apple since 2012. The software experience has gotten buggy and stagnant and their hardware lineup is expensive and mediocre at best.
There is a reason Apple lost the educational business and pro market and those reasons are described above.
Even a dell or hp have caught up to Apple and are offering better suited laptops these days. Most newly introduced hardware are plagued with defects faulty by design. Thermo throttling, faulty keyboards, bending issues, screen issues and the list goes on. Not something you expect from a “premium” brand.
But as long as you surf the Internet, type with two fingers, you’re fine 😀
Well, it’s an open secret in this forum how I am using my Apple devices. They work well for me, I guess I have been lucky to have avoided the major scandals (didn’t get a MacBook because my iPad Pro has basically taken over, and no bending issues either), I love my airpods and Apple Watch, and the ecosystem is working great for me.
I suspect the reality is that were I to switch platforms, I would simply be trading one set of issues for another. It’s not as though I don’t have friends or colleagues who use android devices, and they have their share of gripes and complaints as well.
For instance, why am I, the de-facto Apple expert at my workplace, supposed to be one who knows that the S8’s QR code reader is hidden in the internet app, and that you need to switch on a toggle buried deep in the settings section to access it? Or the one to help my colleague figure out where to access the hotspot feature on her S10 and change the network name? Or the one my school’s janitor approaches because he is being billed every month by some shady “service” app that came preinstalled on his android device which he is unaware of. Or that another’s phone went dead by noon because Dropbox was left open in the background doing who knows what.
Better the devil I know and all that.
On a side note, I will admit that I finally got to play around with the Dex feature on my colleague’s S10 (since I have an external monitor at my desk), and it’s cool, I give you that. It will probably end up working a lot worse than the initial impression let on, but it definitely got everyone present at the time impressed, even if none of them are ever going to use it thereafter.
