I'll chime in here:
Owning Apple products is seen as a "flex", as the young folks like to say. It's a way to say "I got money" just like a Gucci belt, a bottle of Henney, or Balenciaga shoes. Interestingly enough, the two largest groups of iPhone owners are those in the upper middle class making 6 figures+, and those below the poverty line. Apple products don't actually do anything better than any other vendor in any way that's quantifiable.
Until the newer Macs, based on the M1, a Mac was nothing more than an overly expensive PC. If I look hard enough, I believe I even pointed this out here many years ago when comparing a Mac Pro to a Dell Precision workstation. I could match the Mac Pro spec for spec, even exceeding it in many ways, for FAR cheaper with a Dell.
I've got 24 years in IT and NetSec under my belt, and some of that time was spent supporting Macs. I can say wholeheartedly that Macs are no more secure, easier to work on, or any of that nonsense. There are tremendously large botnets out there that are running purely on Macs, and the owners are completely oblivious to it because they believe that MacOS is so secure. iOS has had over 40 exploits found so far this year, with hundreds every single year. And this is verifiable if you head over to CVE and run a search. There was a time not too long ago where you could directly access an iPhone's filesystem across wifi using a chain of exploits under Metasploit running on Linux. Shit took a couple of minutes to scan for the phone, launch the exploits, and "boom", all the pics and shit on your phone are now mine. Hell, it can probably still be done, just with newer exploits. When I was going through CEH training, me and a coworker would go to the Starbucks near the office and basically wreak havoc on anyone on the open wireless, but macs and iPhone users were especially fun 'cause they were just SO vulnerable.
As it pertains to audio, Macs being better at it was only back in the 90's, and even then that was on the way out when Steinberg introduced ASIO. Prior to that, the only reason to use a Mac was because ProTools was more stable on it and really for no other reason. I used to work with a small software company where I composed music and created character art and backgrounds for what was supposed to be their first video game release. I ran Cubase VST as did their primary musician except I ran it on a PC running Windows 95b and he ran it on a PowerMac 7600. He stayed having random freezes and hard OS lock-ups, forcing him to cycle power on his machine during sessions while I would only blue screen if I had too much going at once (which became less and less of a problem as I added more memory to my machine).
I've own Macs in the past, my middle daughter has an iPhone, apple watch, apple pen, and two ipads, but also keeps a Surface Pro and the PC I built for her. Watching her constantly blow money on her iphone is one of the reasons I'll never own anything by Apple ever again. Their stuff is substandard but pricey as hell. Airpods and Apple earbuds sound horrible for the price; I have a pair of Chinese made KZ IEM's that blow them away and I only paid $25 for 'em. The screens on all of my daughter's iPhones, starting with the 7, were ridiculously fragile, cracking after being dropped from a desk or table once, meanwhile after over a year of dropping my cheapie Galaxy J7 straight on it's face I've finally developed a crack two weeks ago. The features on new iPhones are generally two generations or more behind Android so there's no sense in paying the Apple premium for them. Apple's forced obsolescence means you don't have a choice but to upgrade your devices even if they're still technically useful.
My primary workstation that I use for my business (as well as play a game or two) is a Dell Precision 7910, released in 2014; the Apple equivalent would be a 2014 Mac Pro, aka the "trash can". The Mac Pro has always been a direct competitor to the Precision line as they typically use identical processors. My Precision is dual processor, the Mac Pro only one (mine has a pair of 16 core Xeons and I'm grabbing a pair of newer 22 core joints as soon as I can find a matched pair for a decent price). I can expand my machine up to 1TB of RAM (2TB unofficially, I currently have 160GB in mine and plan to expand it very soon); unofficially the Mac Pro will go up to 128GB (the official amount supported by Apple was 32GB). I have a 12GB Nvidia Quadro K6000 in my machine but could upgrade that to a newer Maxwell, Pascal, Turing, or Volta card without issue; you simply can't do that on a 2nd gen Mac Pro. This machine supports up to 8 internal hard drives or SSD's and can configure them in whatever RAID level I wish. Everything about my machine is superior to the trashcan Mac Pro that was released at the same time, yet my machine is far more useful today than the 2nd Gen Mac Pro and will remain useful thanks to the fact that I have some ridiculous upgrade options available. Oh, and it's quiet as hell. I haven't heard the fans running since the very first time I powered it up.
And I can keep going about this. Apple makes inferior products and charges a premium for them and Apple users continue to buy them despite the fact that superior options exist.
