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I don't understand this argument, in fact I'd argue the opposite. Non-Apple devices are way cheaper, both for the device itself and considering the fact that one isn't paying a premium for each peripheral (headphones, freakin charger etc). And if you're referring to the interconnectedness of devices this is attainable with alternatives (even FOSS like KDE connect) albeit with some setup time.

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The only Apple device I use is my mac, but I probably wouldn't switch off it unless there was a more compelling option. There are other viable options, but viable only matters if there's some pressure. I certainly wouldn't sell my car if I had one because another car is equally good or marginally better, it would have to be way better and at least as nice to use in some way. In the future, a new mac is still the most compelling option, for my purposes.

The phone is basically a commodity though. I like Android enough, but I get the best value thing I can for under $500.

The cost I mention is the time/labor cost of switching over to a new ecosystem and making it work in the way I expect it to. I’m just not technically capable (or have the inclination) to spend an insignificant amount of time in getting this custom thing set up. When I buy a TV I don’t really want to care about how the internals work, It’s a black box that I expect to work as designed.

>The time/labor cost of switching

You're tech savvy or you aren't.

I mean. I don't disagree with your points. But I still highly suspect that time would prove the apple ecosystem fairly well established.

For me, I always had to worry about my Android phone being out of battery because some background app sucked it all dry.

And I used Android for years and Google always promised improvements in their releases, but they never really fixed it for me.

Switching to iOS meant that I couldn’t run background apps anymore at all but that honestly was a worthwhile compromise for me.

I also honestly have like 100 apps on my iPhone and it handles it like a champ. I could never do half of that with my Android.

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