[thinkingemote]

Brand and personal investment of time and money in that brand means people will defend their investment.

It's why you can detect so much anger and pain in anti apple threads, because people's personalities are wrapped up with the brand.

A consumer doesn't just get one apple device, or just use one apple app, they buy the watch, phone, desktop, laptop, subscriptions, walled garden store, etc, and it works. It's a family which is hard to leave because you like it there.

[spideymans]

I really can’t criticize Apple for making an ecosystem (walled garden) of devices and services that people genuinely enjoy being in. I just lament that there really is no other comparable parallel ecosystem to compete with them, particularly from open source vendors.

[FearlessNebula]

Samsung is probably the closest: laptop, tablet, phone, watch, headphones all work together. They have their own software suite as well.

[hvidgaard]

And it's not even close.