I don't trust Apple's software acumen to be opinionated in a way that puts it ahead of the curve. I got rid of my Mac for this reason - Homebrew and third-party

I don't trust Apple's software acumen to be opinionated in a way that puts it ahead of the curve. I got rid of my Mac for this reason - Homebrew and third-party distributors fight against Apple to get their apps to behave the way they want them to between minor updates. On top of that, Apple's first-party offerings haven't proven at all that they can stand on their own. Metal is entirely ignored as a 3D API for serious applications and it's most impressive demos are Japanese gachapon games for iPhone. Their hardware isn't competitive with Nvidia despite their advanced access to TSMC nodes and their software isn't even remotely gunning to replace CUDA or adopt a similar featureset a-la Apple's own (retired) OpenCL. They have given up on anything that doesn't entail a) locking in their users or b) making recurring revenue from services. They spurned Khronos, abandoned cross-platform API support and stopped competing on stats... for what? Why? I think it's fine if you support this on a personal or ideological level because it doesn't bother you. But you also have to admit that the average user won't ever spend more than 5 minutes with AI features because they buy iPads to watch YouTube and porn, not design sports cars and rocket engines. Apple is building features for a market that doesn't exist while entirely neglecting rational uses of their time and development talent. It's absolutely pitiful to see a business as large as Apple fall that far - they deserve everything antitrust regulation has to give.