Agreed regarding other OSes, having tried Android on mobile and PopOS on desktop. The apple OS experience is still the most cohesive, which is why the Apple "ba

Agreed regarding other OSes, having tried Android on mobile and PopOS on desktop. The apple OS experience is still the most cohesive, which is why the Apple "base layer" with 3rd-party apps on top is currently the best set of tradeoffs, IMO. My biggest gripe with Apple-made apps is that they seem to think their apps are all of uniformly high quality. Notes, Calendar, Mail are all fine but as you noted Music and Podcasts are not. Same with News, Stocks, Weather. Maps used to be particularly egregious and still was last I checked. > hardware was, if anything, a drawback in some cases Surprised to hear that, although before M1 their internals did seem to be standard components with a higher price tag.