Well I know iphones are great quality devices & have long lasting support, but if I can’t tinker with it then to me it’s hardly better than a gilded brick

By “tinker with it” I mean installing apps like youtube revanced, playing morrowind, having access to a terminal etc

I think it has more to do with compute speed. I have a trash camera but high-end CPU on my device, QR codes are instantaneous

all that effort and all I care about is scanning QR codes :(

100% with you on this. All I need is a QR code scanner. I don’t care about the pixel count, I want everything in my phone to be in performance

heh it truly depends on a lot of factors. I don’t want to “cheap out” pn a high-end windows laptop, their thermals are shit, the battery life is non-existent, the keyboard is trash, and the computer frame are rarely decent.

A macbook is expensive, yes, but I’ve never experienced having to doubt the hardware, or get weird issues with it. It’s a peace of mind I’m willing to pay a premium for. I even have a mac mini as a server for the extremely low power consumption & extremely good CPU performance (seriously, this thing competes with i9s for a fraction of the power (I’m exclusively interested in single thread applications))

As for iphones & apple watches, I like to tinker with my stuff way too much for them to make sense to me (which my macbook allows me to do as much as I want)

I’m exclusively talking about my experience with apple silicon, idk how it was before the M1 chips came out.