James, I was, am, the opposite. Perhaps bias as I once had an article in the physical MacWeek Macintouch magazine.
Foremost, it is Ric’s site and frankly, he was spot on about Apple’s move to subscription, and how Apple stores killed privately-owned mac enthusiast support stores. Like any rebuke, perhaps you create your own Apple support, technology and forum site. Let us know how it goes! And how websites getting clicks for rumors did much better than technical information. You should be critical of a trillion-dollar company that dropped enterprise support, pushed its own support site over 3rd party, that collects data on use and non-use by its customer base (oh the data isn’t resold, but the data decided that you get a model with only 2 USB ports and no headphone jack). People forget, and Apple has made lemons, dropped really good hardware (Time Capsule could have been integrated into Homepod!), pushed subscriptions and Applecare+, and all for what? Greed. Even now, look at all the grey haired directors at Apple. Just look how Apple bought out many of its 3rd party (under NDA so I can’t really say how many) devs. Most recently, what irked me was they bought Affinity! I mean, the best affordable alternative to Adobe apps! Will then next OS have it like Keynote, Numbers, Pages and maybe Imaging?
However, I think we all can agree that many of the headaches of Apple’s previous generations of computers are all but gone. No longer rebuilding databases, repair of fonts, SCSI chain issues, failing optical drives, GPU issues, … yet I still bash Apple for its annoying App store ads when you search for, e.g. Outlook and the first result is not Microsoft Outlook but a clever ad.
Speaking about bye-bye to the Intel imac support… have you ever had to move one, say from a floor to another, carrying it by hand? To unplug all the cables and then pick it up? How do you do that without cutting into the meat of your palm? The edges on that iMac are horrible. Can’t carry it by the foot, as it swivels. Sides? good luck. Nick the side to a wall and crack goes the non-tempered glass. Now, pick up an M-series iMac and its like nothing.
(my work involved deprecating those 27" monsters to be…well…crushed into recycling material).
Note: I understand iOS 26 will FINALLY have a toggle to prevent dialing recent numbers accidentally. IT will require a few more steps like taking you to Contact, and then calling from there. Only took 19 (ergo 26) evolutions of an OS…