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I have a bias, I was an apple engineer when the Apple IIe was first released into the nerd verse.
I then became a field engineer for IBM, for the PC1, my engineer number was 311270 (1983 November, 270th chimp).
I worked for Sun Microsystems (Unix in a business world) for a bit, the power behind .com
Oh maybe I have had a chew on a few of them after all.

If you have an iPhone or iPad the integration is brilliant. If you have an Apple Watch it will unlock against this making unlocking easier than you ever expected. Your files saved will just be on all of them. If you make a note on the iPad it is editable on the Mac. Your (personal identity) world in Apple is probably better protected than across windoze as they do drive privacy more than either of the others on a consumer level if you want full functionality.

You do have to go broad to see the full benefits. No doubt about it. I have played in most of them and my home runs on Apple now. It needs less configuration and skill and provides more of a user experience.

I can select a track on my iPhone and select it to come out on the big music system in the lounge. When the doorbell rings (Amazon Blink) it mutes the track and tells me there is someone at the door. I can turn the music up and down on the big system from the phone.

The average life expectance of a Mac (Apple M silicon) is 5 years so it beats windows forever. It is very fair to say the Unix family make old hardware work very efficiently and faster. But how does this reflect across phones and software integration in your broader life. If you want to join stuff up the Apple platform is light years ahead.

I use a simple Apple TV 4K+Amazon Prime+YouTube+generic internet TV instead of the terrestial TV and do not pay the TV licence and bluntly feel I get better content access. Content is going to be more Internet delivery focused moving forwards. However the producers are going to be more and more payment focused and the platforms that are providing the trusted service does include Apple.

This is the BIG one for me.

Your purchase and support experience? Go and buy a computer/iPad in an actual Apple Store. See how they treat you. Ask questions and see if they are able to answer them. Now try this in any other combination. This is so different it is stunning.

The recent Apple release of the MacBook Neo (higher spec £699) has changed things utterly. This machine can do most things any other laptop can do and brings the benefit of the Apple ecosystem.

Yeah okay, I DO have a bias. The old "apple tax" is no longer true. A base MacMini is a remarkable computer. An iPhone will get security updates longer than most Android devices. It actually works out cheaper and way better integrated. With less skill and understanding needed.