As someone who sympathizes with your perspective, I do believe that this is a minority position. Most people don't care about closed ecosystems - just look at Facebook's popularity. Look at the Apple App Store. Government intervention would be needed to break up these closed gardens.
> I do believe that this is a minority position. Most people don't care about closed ecosystems
You're absolutely right. I bought my first MacBook Pro (17") in 2007 (and it's still running at my parents' house!) Over time all the machines in the house save my work/gaming rig have been replaced by Macs (iMacs, MBP, 12" MB, etc.)
Now I plan on reversing course. I'll keep my iPhone for now because everyone in the family lives in the blue bubbles (iMessage.)
The MacBook Pros are another story. I don't know. I can't see me buying any new Intel Macs since they'll be phased out at some point.
I've never had much luck with the Dell XPSes. I may give ThinkPads a look (I have a P50 at my current job which has been fine (if not for all the corporate antimalware slowing it to a crawl.))
I'm hesitant as well, for the same reason. Having said that my personal PC (desktop) is still running well 3+ years after initially installing Windows on it. My inlaws' very old laptop is still running fine (it's at least 8 years old and was upgraded (on accident!) from whatever version of Windows it was running prior to 10.) Aside from user errors (accidentally installing adware toolbars in Chrome, etc) there really hasn't been any real issues as it pertains to Windows itself.
