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As I read TFA, I thought to myself, &quot;if it gets bad enough, I&#x27;ll just load Linux on my Macs.&quot; And then it occurred to me how I got started using Apple products. So grab a cuppa for story time. It was a time that I worked for Microsoft, and mmm, mmm, wasn&#x27;t that uncarbonated company soft drink tasty. But as I dicked with some Plays for Sure(tm) device for the last time, I got fed up and told the spouse, &quot;get in the car, we&#x27;re going to BellSquare to buy iPods.&quot; iPods turned into ditching the Windows Phones for iPhones, then a hackintosh to get a feel for OS X Leopard, then &quot;fine, I&#x27;ll get a MacBook if I&#x27;m going to do iOS development on the side&quot;.<p>Fast-forward fifteen years, and it&#x27;s a house full of HomeKit, Apple Watches (loving that new Ultra), MacBooks, HomePods, etc. It all works well together, so it&#x27;s easy to justify ditching $DEVICE for an Apple product. And when Apple Premium (one price for all of Apple&#x27;s services such as TV+, iCloud storage, et. al.) came around, well, of course I said &quot;put that on the Apple Card, please.&quot;<p>The point I&#x27;m driving at is that a household of Apple products started with one simple purchase of a couple of music players. But keep up the advertising crap to the point that I&#x27;m loading a non-Apple OS on Apple hardware, and that unravelling thread might take the rest with it. &quot;It all works so well together&quot; is a blessing and a curse. I&#x27;m pretty sure that if, whatever the reason, we ditch the iPhones the rest of it goes with them.