It's not really a three way war, it's a war between Android and Apple. Occasionally Microsoft pops up and gets mostly ignored. How many times have they started from scratch on their mobile OS?

I feel like I have handcuffs on when I use iOS devices. Apple makes too many decisions for me and doesn't give me an option to do otherwise. I like being able to install games I bought from the Humble Bundle on my phone.

As a Linux guy I find KDE Connect to be more powerful and even simpler than Airdrop/Bonjour.

I do have my own video editing story with Apple/Windows 10.

The company I used to work at had a $10,000 Mac Pro up in the studio - for editing video.

The guy in the digital department also wanted to edit some video for his department, but unlike the studio couldn't justify a budget for that kind of a Mac. He asked for a $4,000 Mac and got denied.

I proposed building him a gaming system and got a $1,500 budget to do it with. This was right before Ryzen came out, so I built him an 8 core AMD Bulldozer based system with a GeForce 1070 and 32GB of RAM along with Windows 10. OS and software was on a 512GB SSD, I setup the \users directory to be on a 1GB hybrid drive.

It outperformed the $10,000 Mac Pro in most tasks. Sure it didn't have Thunderbolt, then again the Mac Pro didn't have PCIe slots. This particular user was not the typical creative, he was an actual digital guy who cared about performance and functionality over labels and perception. He loved it. Most of my users wouldn't have traded a CoreDuo iMac with CS4 for that system I built if it meant they weren't going to be using a Mac anymore. I consider those users to be handicapped.

Little known fact - Adobe and Apple have been at war for over a decade. Adobe intentionally makes their products work better on Windows than Mac now, but they know better than to cut-off Apple due to the ingrained mindsets of the existing field. That's why most of their modern how-to videos are done on Windows machines, they're trying to nudge people over.

Pure Android is great - I pit it against Apple in interface comparisons. Unfortunately the carriers and handset makers ruin Android. If you have a Nexus/Pixel type device with true Android on it, it's great, the manufacturers and carriers like to ruin their phones otherwise.

The things you like most about Apple are the things they annoy me most about Apple. You summed it up with "if they also have a Mac" - I see their lack of cross platform compatibility with their native stuff annoys me.

That being said - I've used Macs extensively and liked it.

I don't use a Mac like a Mac user does.

I use the same cross-platform things on a Mac that I do on Linux or Windows for the most part. I use the same browsers obviously, I used to use a drop-down terminal just like I do on Linux and Windows, until that got broken due to interface changes. I use Clementine for music, I use VLC for video, I command-line the hell out of everything. I use Free File Sync, Sync Thing, Handbrake, MakeMKV - basically if it's what I use with KDE Neon I try to use it on a Mac also. I find avoiding actual Apple programs to be the safest thing to do if I want to work with anyone not on the plantation.

The end result is I can move between Linux, Mac and Windows nearly seamlessly.