I find this interesting. And I do realize that this sentiment is shared by majority of the people.

I have a couple of Apple devices (iPads, M1 Mini, AppleTv, iPod) and especially in the past 2 years, I have decided that I have had enough Apple, won't buy anything from them in the near future: I experience so many bugs in iOS, I just hate to touch my iPad. Constant fight with elementary things, like not fetching my emails in a timely manner, messing up the address bar of Safari, or simply just flooded by "couldn't sync health data" messages, even though all cloud sync is disabled (etc).

I could be just unlucky, but it doesn't "just work" for me since a while, at least software-wise. I have been on the lookout for an Android tablet (hoping that at least it will fetch my emails, if nothing else...)

The OnePlus Pad 2 seems to be a pretty solid Android tablet. I had the Pixel tablet but returned it as it had too much Google stuff baked into the functionality (naturally).

Yes. If you ignore all the other words I wrote, then yes - in this case your summary is 100% correct.

I love my M2 machine but, after a month it had a couple of dead pixels already.

I have an M2 Macbook Air with horrible battery life, 5 hours maybe. The 2014 Intel MBP it replaced had 8-9 hours for about 5 years, then came down to 3-4 hours.

I mean, I have piles of even older PCs that work just fine too. That's hardly specific to Apple. Shit I just had a LAN party this weekend, and the majority of the computers people brought were over 10 years old, because nobody really has any need to upgrade. I was gaming on a Surface Pro 2. Yes we were playing old games, but these were mostly our daily driver systems, which work 100% fine for most daily tasks still to this day.

Outside of the workplace, many of the machines I use on a daily basis are more than 10 years old. All of my machines are older than 5 years. I don't use Apple products.

There is nothing I want or need to do that requires equipment newer than that. The same is true for the vast majority of the people I know.

You write as if this was a problem.

Not to the consumers. Won't people think of the shareholders?

I'm using an Asus Laptop from 2014 with an SSD upgrade to do about 80 % of my daily work. It no longer has any letters on the keys, but other than that it just works great and won't die.