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Keep thinking that. You can get anything an Apple does for a lot less somewhere else.

I know that you can buy a lot of junk cheaply. However, by the time you put your time into getting it all to work together, you have a kludge that only partially works together. I work cross platform on multiple systems.

You seem to know the price of everything but the value of nothing. . . especially the time of people who really don't want to spend time tinkering to make something work.

I do not believe you own an iPhone now, if you ever did before. . . because you said that when you got an iPhone you had to buy a GPS. It may be you bought the 2007 model that used Cell Tower triangulation for location services. Admit it, you don't use Apple products at all. You spout talking points from FUD articles that also don't know what they are talking about.

But, yes, it just works. Apple's Maps app works excellently now. Even when it was released, the few glitches were minor. When Google Maps added their 3D view, three years later, it had the SAME KIND of glitches that the nattering nabobs of negativity were chattering about as being so bad in Apple Maps but not a peep was heard in the press.

The direction problems with Apple Maps existed not in Apple Maps but in TomTom, the source of the data which Apple was leasing in their original release; it was not inherent just in Apple's data. And the business data errors came from Yelp not updating its databases. Within six months of release, all of the so called errors were fixed. . . but the nay-sayers, under the baton being waved by Google, were still screaming about the problems that existed on the first release, not that they had been fixed. . . and they STILL crow about those glitches today, three years later.

Objective-C? Their software is chained to a programming language from the 1980’s,

XCode? their dev environment? Buggy as hell

Not according to the people who program for multiple platforms. . . Haven't you heard of SWIFT????

iPhone? can’t change the resolution when taking pictures.

That's a new one. Why would you want to take crappier photos than your camera is capable of taking? Most criticism is that the iPhone camera doesn't have more! SHEESH! Take the photo, send it to your iCloud automatically encrypted to 256 bit AES standard, then delete it from your phone to clear up space if you need the memory space, and take more. Resize the photo as needed later.

Now they want all your health information.

No, Okie, Apple does not want your health information. It's kept on your devices for YOUR use. If you decide you are willing to share it personally with your doctor, or anonymously with research organizations, it's your choice, it never goes to Apple for their use. Apple could not be less interested. It will be stored with your iCloud data, but that is encrypted to 256 bit AES standards, and only YOU have the key. Apple doesn't have the key to your data. They cannot decrypt it, only you can unlock it.

What do they do that nobody else does?

As I said, Apple integration is far better than anyone else's integration. . . I do something on my iPhone, iPad, or Mac, it's instantly on the other devices I own, if I start a document on one, I can finish on another, edit an email on one, send it on another. If developers follow the guidelines and use the APIs, it will work across the apps too. It all works seamlessly. Multiple people can work on a single document and track edits. . . seamlessly. All apps share the same User interface and layout of menus. Drag and drop actually works across all apps. Plug in a device, the system recognizes it and it's ready to go. Except in very rare circumstances, searching for drivers to install is not required. Deleting an App or program is as simple as dragging it to the trash. . . and anti-virus/anti-malware is really an unnecessary addition. . . as are the various third party utilities to keep the system running cleanly.

One thing they are doing is NOT sharing any of your data with the authorities because they literally cannot. They don't have the key to it. Microsoft and Google long ago jumped that shark and agreed to participate but Apple refused. Apple will comply with a legal search warrant and hand over your encrypted data, which is gobbledegook. . . but it is up to the government to get it unlocked, to decrypt it.

Apple cannot help them do that. The government has to compel YOU to give them the key to open the files.

Could the Windows version of iTunes use a bottom to top rebuild? Probably, perhaps even certainly. The Mac version works quite well.