What’s Apple’s competitive edge going forward?
TL;DR laptops have been hit&#x2F;miss for me but phones&#x2F;tablets are miles ahead.<p>I am no Apple fan per se; I loved their laptops but I got burnt; I forgot the English&#x2F;American term for it; monday laptop or something I think it is?<p>The best laptops I had before Apple were Fujitsu... And the warranty. US&#x2F;EU companies should be so ashamed. For not paying more they would get the laptop from my home and give me a new one mostly, no questions asked. Dropped, water damage, whatever. They still do that for company laptops but they are not so interesting anymore. They were then (8 years ago?) for me, especially the P1510&#x2F;20 series. Panasonic took that over but they are a lot more expensive. My last P1510 works fine still. Brilliant stuff. Anyway.<p>After that;<p>My first 2 Macbooks were magic. I dropped an entire pot of tea on my 2nd one; it was before the moist sensors and it was under warranty so they replaced it. Very nice. While it was in &#x27;repair&#x27; I needed to work;  I bought a Macbook Pro and it was horrible. I got the old Macbook back and the Pro which should be faster was slower. Brought both to Apple (in Amsterdam) and they said it had something to do with my software. Yeah. VIM. It&#x27;s super heavy. Very nasty experience. Battery life on the Pro was not there either but they couldn&#x27;t find anything so I had to suck it up.<p>I bought an Air 11 inch. What a GREAT machine. Excellent battery life (I USE VIM 90% OF THE DAY FFS), light, looks good.<p>A friend told me the Macbook pro is excellent. So I gave the Air away to a friend and bought a kitted out Pro. The misery. No battery life and it was slow with max mem and cpu. Slower than the Air on everything. Again; Apple says it isn&#x27;t. I won&#x27;t mention Vim again.<p>Having said all that; smartphones. I want to use Android. I want to believe in Android and Android phones.  I have tried all top phones for Android. But no, it doesn&#x27;t work; iPhone really feels so much better. And tablets there is no comparison; iPad wins hands down. The MS stuff starts to get somewhere but i&#x27;m not using tablets for productivity as it still feels annoying and without productivity iPad really feels so nice. Maybe it happens (I&#x27;m trying) one day.<p>When I leave home on long trips I bring an iPhone, iPad and Lenovo X220 (18 hours battery). There is currently nothing that works better for me.<p>Edit: X220 is with Ubuntu; I cannot get into Windows for the past 33 years; I went from Basic -&gt; CP&#x2F;M -&gt; MS DOS (very shortly) -&gt; Unix (forgot the flavor) -&gt; SunOS&#x2F;Solaris -&gt; Linux; Windows feels distinctly alien. It is not hatred or anything else than that I really cannot into it or see how I could work efficiently with it.