They aren't praising Apple. It's the incredibly lame, intellectually vapid, ignorant, boorish "only silly people buy Apple devices, and for silly reasons" noise that has been the tired retort of weird anti-Apple sorts of the past decade and a half. That people are still plying this rhetoric in 2023 is simply pathetic.

Particularly weird given that a) Apple devices stay in service much longer than competitors, b) Apple sales swooned as well. It turns out that people are pretty satisfied with their devices.