: Loads of people shit on Apple, and in a lot of ways, I can’t blame them. That said, like other companies and individual people, a lot of folks just pile on because people just like to pile on. I quite like Apple and I’ve been a customer since 1989, though then it was only professional, at the newspaper and the magazine. I have been an Apple customer regularly since 2012. My lateliest experience with them has been pretty darn good.

I got a new HomePod a few weeks ago, and for…