well, apple products work really well with other apple products
Which is my point. Apple products work well with Apple products, but only Apple products. Both getting an iPhone to work with other non-Apple devices or software, and getting non-Apple devices to work with Apple software are a pain in the rear end.
My father in law has a SanDisk Sansa Fuze mp3 player, and getting it to automatically sync music with iTunes was a chore. Conversely, manipulating files on my dad’s iPad without using iTunes is also a chore.
If you use Apple anything, you’re strongly encouraged to use Apple everything else because of the way the ecosystem is designed to lock you in.