[ripvanwinkle]

As a newish user of Apple (Macbook and the IPad mini) it was not as big a leap from Android and Windows as I had feared. I still live in Google services including Gboard on the IPad mini and apart from klutzing around with system settings occasionally the mini feels "not terribly different" from the android devices I use. The Macbook is a bigger challenge though.

I only picked the mini because I couldn't get the same performance with that form factor in Android.

I only entertained the mini because I was forced to use a Macbook for work and realized that apart from annoyances with keyboard shortcuts and system settings I could continue to live in a Firefox + Chrome + Edge + Google services ecosystem.

I will now definitely consider Apple hardware if I don't find a good fit in the Android + Windows world

[phmqk76]

And yet, in Apple’s preferred world, they suck up 30% of all of the revenue made by developers who develop for their devices. The Mac model may not exist in 10 years if Apple can get rid of it and replace it with a locked down App Store from which they charge rents.