My personal laptop is a MacBook. My personal phone is an Android. My work laptop runs Windows, and my work phone is an iPhone.
You would think the two Apple devices would have found each other by now. They have not, and I get asked to defend this more often than I expected.
Work runs on Windows because the Office apps are better there, and it isn't close. Everything sits where your hands expect it. The shortcuts are the ones you already know. Nothing quietly rearranges itself between the version you wrote and the version somebody else opens. I assume that's intended, and I've stopped being annoyed about it.
The Mac is where anything I actually build happens. Terminal work, Claude Code, the side projects that mostly die on a Sunday. I think better on it and I can't give you a clean technical reason, which is the part that bothers me. It also goes in a bag without a charger and stays out of my mind until the evening. Small thing. It turns out to be the thing I notice most.
The phones are simpler than that. One was handed to me and one I chose.
For years I read all this as a failure to commit. Four devices, and a file that is never in the place I left it.
It isn't. Nobody buys a stack. You buy one thing at a time, for the job in front of you that week, and what you end up with is a record of those decisions rather than a plan.
The tidy version, where everything matches and syncs and hands off to the next screen, is a lovely idea I have never once achieved.