• Reliability and UX are just solid

• The supposed things I lose rear there head from time to time but very limited (I don’t feel it’s any more restricted or problematic than my other devices, just in different ways)

• I have an android for playing around with Nostr things that iOS doesn’t allow

• Most of what I can’t do on mobile I have no problem with on desktop

• There is no media player that even slightly compares to how good Apple TV is… and I’ve used a ton of them.

• I like a “normie reliable” option alongside a “super user custom” option. Both are better in partnership with the other.

There is a trade off, but having a device that just works and where most things behave as I intuitively expect is really valuable. And I don’t really trust any of the huge corporations whose products I use, so the comparison on that front seems moot to me.

I say this as a person who likes their Calyx pixel, intends to move to Graphene, and has a custom Linux machine that I love about 90% of the time and only hate tk the core of my soul and want to beat the shit out of around once a month. My Mac and iPhone basically just always works for me and I like their environments.

Lastly, Mac works with media and external devices (less so iPhone) extremely well. Linux sucks balls at both and the idea of using Windows just makes me laugh.🤣