
Every once in a while I go through a period of wondering if Apple's ecosystem is actually right for me. I'm full in on it right now. I have an iPhone, Apple Watch, iPad, MacBook Air, Apple TV, AirPods Pro 2, and a few HomePod minis. The only category I'm missing now is spatial computing, but I'm not about to drop $3,500 on the Vision Pro.
While it's great living in the walled garden (you should try it, it's very comfortable in here), sometimes I get an idea that it might be time to escape. That's led me to try a Windows Surface Laptop and a Pixel phone from Google in the past — both experiments have failed.