Apple Silicon is market leading. But it cost me $4K to buy a decently DRAM + storage equipped laptop, which is absurd. My view of Apple as ethical (even relative to a low industry baseline) has taken a huge dive. I will try, but I may not succeed, to part ways, unless some of these things change. 1/

Apple is the king of ecosystem lock-in. The phone and laptop interoperate much more seamlessly than any third party thing could do. The wife has a watch. The whole extended fam uses iMessage. It will be costly to switch. I don't think I'll persuade them to Signal. /fin