> and you'll all keep buying shovelling money into their pocketbooks

Because for me as a user everything else is even worse. Generally nowadays _everything_ is pile of crap in some way or another, Apple's is just a pile that stinks for me a little less.

Mobile alternative my recent Android phone from Motorola (Moto 5G Plus):

- I haven't seen ROM update in a while and

- Unremovable hidden Facebook services binaries in the very core of the OS (de-bloater from F-Droid dealt with it)

- Facebook pre-installed

- No mail client (no, Gmail doesn't count)

- No caldav client (purchase for 15 AUD in Google Play, comes stock on every Apple device)

- No cardav client (purchase for 15 AUD in Google Play, comes stock on every Apple device)

- No way to stop apps running in background

- Absolute barrage of notifications about features I don't care about that won't go away until I click them.

- Absolutely idiotic approach to photos where every app lists _every_ image on the device in photos. My 100gb music collection with folder images simply crashes most gallery apps.

- The amount of ads is just staggering compared to iOS

- No ad-blocking in the browser (Safari on iOS provides a framework, you install an app and you don't see ads anymore, I was unpleasantly surprised when I tried surfing the web in Chrome on that Moto phone)

- Google Photos simply blocks the screen with suggestion to back up everything to the cloud on each launch and I have to dismiss every time.

OS Alternative:

- Linux - good luck making 4k scree snappy and god forbid you have your laptop monitor with different scaling settings

- Linux - general hardware support is meh, had huge troubles with my wifi printer

- Linux - convenience apps - like photo gallery and stuff, almost none - there are either too simple apps or monstrous combine harvesters.

- Linux - public wifis is still a trouble, getting to those login portals is flakey, sometimes you get there automatically, sometimes you have to figure out yourself how to get there.

- Linux - good luck finding a decent email client. Best I could do is neomutt + notmuch but Apple's Mail achieves the same setup I had there in 5 minutes of clicking instead of couple days of tweaking configs.

- Linux - still comes to a halt when I'm trying to copy a 10GB file somewhere.

- Windows: spyware-as-a-service

- Windows: no native unix tools, only through a layer of virtualisation

- Windows: terminal emulator still sucks and slow af, see "refterm" by Casey Muratori.

- Windows: convenience apps nearly impossible to find (on Apple platform you get full office suite, video editor, photo library solutions, music making thingy, etc, etc for free).

- Widows: usability choices suck, like hibernating my surface sometime after I lock the screen so I have to wait good 10 - 20 seconds for it to wake up when I need it. Had to hack something in registry to get "old" power controls back to remove that crap.

- Windows: email clients _all_suck_, the last half-decent client was Outlook 2010. (Well, Thunderbird is ok-ish)

- Windows: still no caldav, no cardav (you can hack shit together by going iCloud road and replacing URLs in buil-in clients)

EDIT(s):

%s/worth/worse

%s/have seen ROM/haven't seen ROM