Apple are doing a lot better than other FAANG companies in my opinion as of late

Sure they used their trillions in net value to engineer an ARM chip to get one up on the x86 tyrants and their industry connections to make it all work, but at the end of the day, they have the audacity to sell you a shiny heap of metal whose RAM and SSD are both soldered in and whose right to repair stance would be better stated as a huge middle finger right to your face.

People buy Apple because in the Global North, people are conditioned to see technology as a status tool rather than something that solves problems for you and that you can control. It is an apathy built into the education system by the ruling class to slowly convince people that it's alright not to own anything and to relinquish more and more of their freedoms to the capitalists charging thousands of dollars for machines that they rigged to blow in 5 years. Once you're outside of the imperial core, Android dominates because of economic necessity (unless you're some Shanghai liberal who sees western products as a status symbol or rich). You buy Apple because you are conditioned to or born into it.

The shit that Google and Microsoft have put out in comparison constitute crimes against humanity with how shit and hollow they have been.

Apple is always the good cop to Microsoft's bad cop. They're still jailing you in the end.

The ability to tag all the photos in my Photos library with the names of people present in them, and to search for people, is likewise moderately useful: the jury is still out on the pet recognition, though.

Hmm, how is Apple able to identify all my family members? I don't know! , sorry I just found that part funny.