Something you are missing. Durability and longevity. Many people find their MacBook pro is like elephant skin boots and doesn’t wear out.
Units sold will lag because the windows crowd will buy two in the time we buy one. My daughter took a new Pro to college. She is in grad school now and is starting to think about replacing it, but it isn’t a crisis. All of her roomates have replaced their windows machine once at least or had major issues to sort out in updates etc.
Her Pro has been drama free.
I'm still using an original MacBook Air (2008)
I have a still working Powerbook G4 12”
in a production setting
The Darned things just keep working
I've had my MacBook Pro since 2011. The only thing that I've had to replace was the adapter, and that was just this year.
Durability & longevity are key. Kids are still on same Macbooks, while I’ve tossed 2 Dells over same timeframe.
I agree with durability and longevity of Mac. Daughter dropped her Macbook Pro off the deck. It slammed shut on the grass and didn’t sustain any damage.
Her Toshiba laptop, same age, case cracked just opening and closing it. Lots of dead pixels.