So I have a different take. I put my purchase on Saturday night to go all into apple. We bought 2 macbook air M2, 2 iPhone 14plus (didn’t see the point of spending more for the 15), 2 iPad air5, 2 airpods pro 2 headphones and considering the watch.
Some background information- I’m a medical student and studying for my boards. I had a surface pro 7 (16gb ram, i7) and it was fine. But in clinical skills I found the surface too big in size, clunky feeling and pretty slow to use as a tablet to jot down pt note stuff. My classmates all used an iPad. For 2 yrs I studied at a desk with dual monitors attached to the surface dock so I can have multi screen and a tablet to write on. Problem was I could never study away from home since I needed the tablet to write on but monitors to watch lectures. So that was one issue which could be solved with a samsung tablet tbh. But I study at home and when I’m out grocery shopping, waiting on line at the store or even when getting gas I like to read my notes. It hasn’t been a very fluent process to have my notes accessible everywhere even though I had onedrive. Sometimes I’d save but it didn’t show until 10 min later or a day later…
Now… I currently have a zfold4 I bought last year for a hefty price tag. LOVE the phone. Perfect for reading my notes when I’m out or in bed. My wife has the galaxy s21 ultra I love our samsunf stuff. I ordered 2 weeks ago a samsung galaxy book 3 pro, the samsung S9 tablet and the buds pro headphones. Loved the tab S9. Everything about it from feel, writing, visuals and multitasking is way better than the ipad. I really wanted the samsunf team to win. But the buds were a nightmare to connect to the laptop. No problem with other devices. Things I’d save on onedrive wouldn’t load up on my phone or S9 within a reasonable time (it was on the web browser though). The battery life was short (it would reach 10% before I was halfway through my studying). The biggest reason the samsung didn’t work out for me was because Mac is made for tech dummies. I’m tech dummy lol I actually like the way the Mac feels. It feels quality build. I hate trackpads but it feels great. The iPad air is ehh. Battery life is like 1/3 of the tab s9. Visuals are boring and 60hz refresh rate. Pen sucks compared to tab. Multitasking is behind apple by considerable margin. But I like this icloud thing. Everything’s just so well connected across all devices with no extra effort. Also since like 80+% of med students have iphones, airdropping stuff would be easier. They did it all the time before. I know there is email and what not but convenience is everything especially with little time. I like the Mac gestures but I hate the shortcut stuff. After 1 week of using the MacBook I still don’t know why sometimes the ctrl + key is used vs option+ key or Command + key. Very annoying. I hate their split screen setup and how I can’t manipulate how I want my split screen done. Don’t like that apple doesn’t play nice with other companies.
For me, I think the apple stuff is something I’m looking forward to. There’s less customizations but thats fine. I just need a phone that’s fast enough, pretty bare bones, connected to my other devices and that’s pretty much it. I do feel weird switching over especially now that samsung seems to destroy apple products. Almost feels like I’m taking a step backwards and paying more for it too but it’s the simplicity and integration with its products that I like. It’s very effortless. Samsung may be like that too once it’s set up but I don’t have the time, patients nor tech know how to do so.
Yup its us less tech savy people that like it. I posted a comment few min ago about why I purchased everything apple just this Saturday despite having a zfold4 for little under a yr and my wife having a samsung phone as well. But basically apple is simple and efficient. Perfect for people like me who’s not very tech savy and don’t care to customize just organize few things in efficient manner. Also being a med student it’s the most common phone so transferring files and having all my devices connected to the same cloud without having to think and organize or set anything up really is very helpful for me to study on the go. Had some issues just last week with my windows devices.