I find this interesting. And I do realize that this sentiment is shared by majority of the people.

I have a couple of Apple devices (iPads, M1 Mini, AppleTv, iPod) and especially in the past 2 years, I have decided that I have had enough Apple, won't buy anything from them in the near future: I experience so many bugs in iOS, I just hate to touch my iPad. Constant fight with elementary things, like not fetching my emails in a timely manner, messing up the address bar of Safari, or simply just flooded by "couldn't sync health data" messages, even though all cloud sync is disabled (etc).

I could be just unlucky, but it doesn't "just work" for me since a while, at least software-wise. I have been on the lookout for an Android tablet (hoping that at least it will fetch my emails, if nothing else...)

The OnePlus Pad 2 seems to be a pretty solid Android tablet. I had the Pixel tablet but returned it as it had too much Google stuff baked into the functionality (naturally).

So let me get this right. You're complaining about notifications like "couldn't sync health data", after disabling syncing health data. Ok...

Yes. If you ignore all the other words I wrote, then yes - in this case your summary is 100% correct.

I'm using an Asus Laptop from 2014 with an SSD upgrade to do about 80 % of my daily work. It no longer has any letters on the keys, but other than that it just works great and won't die.

I love my M2 machine but, after a month it had a couple of dead pixels already.

I have an M2 Macbook Air with horrible battery life, 5 hours maybe. The 2014 Intel MBP it replaced had 8-9 hours for about 5 years, then came down to 3-4 hours.

You write as if this was a problem.

Not to the consumers. Won't people think of the shareholders?

I mean, I have piles of even older PCs that work just fine too. That's hardly specific to Apple. Shit I just had a LAN party this weekend, and the majority of the computers people brought were over 10 years old, because nobody really has any need to upgrade. I was gaming on a Surface Pro 2. Yes we were playing old games, but these were mostly our daily driver systems, which work 100% fine for most daily tasks still to this day.

Outside of the workplace, many of the machines I use on a daily basis are more than 10 years old. All of my machines are older than 5 years. I don't use Apple products.

There is nothing I want or need to do that requires equipment newer than that. The same is true for the vast majority of the people I know.