I would love for the Pro lineup to include a desktop experience if you plugged your phone into a docking station. Nostalgia hit me hard on another thread talking about Windows Continuum on my Windows Phone years ago, and Apple already has the tech there with iPads.

Microsoft decided to kill Windows Phone.

The big one for me is the ecosystem and tight integration. If you’re in Apple’s ecosystem, then everything works together without having to jump through hoops. Factor in your friends and family in the same ecosystem, and it gets even better for sharing.

Cost of ownership for the item’s life cycle. Apple can cost a bit more upfront, but their products are supported longer, and they hold their value. Sure, other companies are starting to claim similar support, but until that support is realized, they’re just claims; see Pixel Pass.

This is a perk for me, but first-party apps aren’t prone to disappearing. We all joke around that Google comes out with a new app and kills it a few years later, but those choices have a real impact on the people who use them. Yeah, Apple is slow to update, and some of their apps are just bad Podcasts, but the chances of them going away are small. As someone who’s AuDHD, I don’t particularly appreciate reworking a workflow I’ve worked so hard to create because Google decided to take another crack at something by launching a new app with fewer features.

I’m all in at home after initially thinking I’d never be an Apple guy. Once I hit a certain age, I figured out how important time was to me, and Apple products give me back that time. Everything works out of the box, they all communicate with each other with very little, if any, setup required, and they last a long time. The switch helped my productivity, but if you’re someone that has a difficult time with change, it would be something to consider before making the leap.