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Because I love the platform. I've been a Mac user for decades. People harp on marketing making us foam at the mouth for these products, but I genuinely love them. I also hate some decisions, but the time to switch platforms is not today or in the foreseeable future.
Yes, Linux would let me do most of what I want to do. But I appreciate the design of indie Mac apps. They're far beyond the polish of apps on Linux and Windows.
Sad to say it but yeah. I've never really used MacBooks, but I had an ipad pro 10.5 for years, and it finally died on me a few months ago. I recently replaced it with a 2 in 1 thinkpad, but the level of usability is just not the same. Tried windows (kinda half thought out) and currently going through Linux distros (mostly buggy when in purely touchscreen only mode) but it is a far cry ipad os, even if I have issues with it.
Yeah, I'm really trying to find a tablet that is about 8 inches and has extremely smooth usage of web browsing and YouTube, that isn't an iPad mini (or Samsung, just don't like their UI), and it seems like nothing comes close anywhere in the industry, maybe with the possible exception of the Google Pixel Tablet. It feels like the entire industry gave up trying to innovate tablets because iPads were that good.
Not to mention that they all abandoned headphone Jack's, even though if they kept them they might have actually got me. If you don't need a headphone jack, I'm pretty sure Huawei has some tablets running their harmonyOS (fork of android, I think), have heard they're pretty decent.