Their software is equally average in most respects, and has a far smaller market share worldwide across all form factors they support.
iOS is the reason I'll never own another iPad.
I mean, it's fine that you like it, but "spoilt" seems like an exaggeration.
Is this a serious statement? If Apple's hardware is maybe slightly above average - what's above it? It's an easy company to hate on - but you don't have any other platform integrated as well as Apple's right now IMO. Unless you maybe count Huawei.
Edit: I think I may be referring more to the holistic picture. But still curious what hardware you think is better.
I can't fathom why people like that crap apart from looking slick.
Mac OS is shit, and I would unironically prefer to be forced to use Windows at work.
Style over substance. Pure crap to me.
Now that they ditched Intel, I have even less use for them. Fortunately my current job sends me whatever hardware I want (but I still can't use Linux at work).
We own Apple stock, and I've worked as a Mac SysAdmin and we'll never buy another Apple product.
Antenna-gate ("you're holding it wrong"), the "magic mouse" with the charging port on the bottom, the shitty keyboard problems, screen problems, etc, etc... Apple misses the mark a lot on its hardware.
Only someone firmly in the grasp of the reality distortion field will claim that Apple hardware is superior.
The only hardware I can think of that's consistently higher-quality than Apple is niche stuff at a much higher price point.
e.g. the Seneca keyboard, Sennheiser Orpheus headphones, etc.
Apple hardware and software has always been a small worldwide market share, it's just not as popular or as good as the fanboys think it is. For many people it's simply a status symbol and not a real tool for doing anything more than getting to have a blue bubble in text messages so the other fanboys won't laugh at you.
Oh, Apple Silicon you say? Every single test of it is done before thermal throttling kicks in, cutting performance to a fraction of what the peak is. So yeah, you get great performance for about 5 minutes, and then it goes to shit.
We've had to sue Apple in a class action over their faulty hardware, and we won. We just retired our last MBP, and good riddance. It was just so flaky and wouldn't play nice other systems on the network - and I used to be a Mac Sysadmin, so I'm not an idiot with this stuff.
We own Apple stock and would never buy another Apple product again. Fortunately fools and their money are soon parted, so we'll keep making money off them.