Everything all at once
There are about to be a whole lot of systemic changes happening all at once. Part of the problem of the past was that updates broke current architecture. That is a big reason for NOT updating. There is a separate article on El Reg rn describing how AI bug hunting is going to throw a whole lot of patches and "fixes" at the industry all at once. This is correct. There are about to be a lot of long standing systemic changes in how and why things work or don't. This will happen across ALL platforms. Linux is being actively targeted by Azure and others at the moment. AI is coming for your linux.
As for myself, as someone who has an original apple in my closet, and learned how to type on apples in grade school in the 3-4 grade, I always wondered how apple escaped all this unharmed?
Siri was the first AI assistant. Icloud was the first "one drive". And, at this point I have to wall off and turn off my apple services just to keep people from spying on me through location services and such. It seems weird that they don't get more heat.
Our computing world has changed. There are NO more personal computers, and there is no more internet. There is only what you are allowed to do, and that gets nicked and adopted as soon as you expose a good idea.
Welcome to the new world order. A serious contender is needed. A new beginning.