MacBooks and Studio Displays and even iPhones may indeed be the apex of utility and reliability (or better described perhaps as ‘appliances’), but the connection between user and computer and the wonder and adventure of computing has been lost. Worse, it’s now mediated completely by Apple with draconian publishing rules for Apps, enforced design updates (gulp, liquid glass), and maddening control measures across every aspect of the experience. When you use an Apple platform, you are not using a device. You are interacting with a set of rules defined by committee. At best you are a few steps removed from inputting heat times into a microwave, or setting the brew duration on your coffee machine. The Apple experience is now transactional and hollow.