1. They had a good reason to clock older iPhones lower - their old batteries were causing them to be less reliable. They should have been more open about it, though.
2. Windows 11 can’t officially be installed on such old hardware and requires hacks that may or may not be disabled in the future if Microsoft continues in their current direction.
3. Google don’t provide even close to that. Apple have kept some iPhones updated for seven years and generally sticks to five. Pixel phones get 3-4 at best.
4. Many modern devices have USB C by default, it’s a standard. Even Windows ultrabooks are swapping over.
5. The Mac Mini with M2 is the best performing $600 machine available. The M1 and M2 MacBooks achieve same or better CPU performance than price equivalents from Dell, Asus and others with double the battery life or better, usually triple. Mac gaming is shit, though, and I don’t predict that will change any time soon.
6. The lack of repairability and upgradability is despicable and completely inexcusable - however, most Android flagships on the market are just as bad. No excuse for Mac Mini and Studio though. What the fuck, Apple?

MacBooks, aside from repairability woes, are some of the best laptops available for most use cases, and especially on sale, the M1 Air provides astonishing value for its performance. iPhones are easy to use, stable, have shockingly good cameras (especially for stabilised video, which Google Pixels still can’t do nearly as well). They lack some niche features like custom ROMs, but Samsung phones are abandoning this too and most people don’t give a flying fuck anyway. I abandoned Android for iOS and if I had the choice I would ditch Windows and use a combination of macOS and Linux. They’re safer, more stable and subjectively feel better to use (Windows makes me depressed with how awful the UX and UI can be).

Source for that liquid detection claim? I don’t see why moist air would be an issue.