tbf none of those have maintained quality for as long as apple have. since iphone 1 apple has maintained a superlative quality of phone - nothing on android side comes anywhere close for the same amount of time.

i prefer just being able to say "buy an iphone/macbook" whenever i think what has quality rather than having to research options for 3 hours on what's the current state of the art in tech.

> rather than having to research options for 3 hours

Right. Just buy a Macbook...

Except, don't get the 12". That one was an overheating flop, should have never made it to market (nor the i9 16" Pro). Also, avoid the 2016-2019 ones with the butterfly keyboard. While you're at it, don't get the 13" Pro either, since it's a bit of a scam for the touchbar that wasn't that big of a hit. For all of these machines you'll want to upgrade them from the base memory to 16gb to make them last longer, and if you don't upgrade the storage then there's a good chance you'll only get single module speeds, which is significantly limited.

Simple!

There is a reason why https://buyersguide.macrumors.com/ exists.

Ive seen plenty of people buy a current Mac just for Apple to relesase something new 2 weeks later.

Also, for phones atleast, Samsung Galaxy has been pretty consistent in quality.