Around the summer of 2009, I bought my first iPhone. I loved how the phone synced all my contacts, music, photos and movies together and then I could carry it in my pocket. I have been an Apple fan since the 90's. Owning an iPhone was a natural extension of the Mac experience where things just worked. However, my Mac/iPhone experience has not been that smooth recently. A few years back, I purchased an iPhone 6 Plus and discovered that my iTunes was too old to sync with the phone. I also discovered my version of OSX wouldn't support the latest iTunes. To be fair, my Mac laptop is 8 years old and my expectation of a laptop lasting 10 years might be too unrealistic today. But I spent around $1200 for the MacBook Pro. Is it too unfair to ask that a laptop last a year for every hundred dollars spent? But I digress. Syncing an iPhone introduced me to the concept of the computing ecosystem. And syncing the latest iPhone to an 8 year old MacBook introduced me to the concept of ...