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