I worked at Apple 20 years ago. 25% employee discount was nice. So I had a lot of it myself. Then the walled garden got more and more obnoxious and I got tried of Big Tech a la Snowden privacy hit as well. As a developer being told what I could do on my own machine and that I had to pay more Apple tax to get other Apple users to use what I built really rankled. Sold it all off. Linux and grapheneos is where I live now.