This thread has turned into a battle of those for and against windows and it's clear who is going to win, we are on macrumors after all. Is all this biased? Of course it is. As biased as are the people on windows fan websites.
Having said that, the comment that sparked all this was about devices' longevity. And I tend to agree with it. But things are changing.
Windows pcs and macs used to last much longer than ipads. Why? Because they were upgradable or were highly specced to begin with. Ipads had very weak hardware, and IOS was optimized (and limited) to work well on that weak hardware.
Things are changing though. Since the very first ipad pro, ipad have moved to powerful CPUs, 4GB of RAM (not all) and SSD storage. And ipadOS made IOS more capable of exploiting those specs. Also, thanks to the better specs apple is upgrading ipads much longer. Meanwhile most laptops are not upgradable anymore.
Having said that you can still increase the longevity of windows/mac device more by buying for instance a 16GB RAM version, a good CPU and enough storage if soldered on. A quad core laptop with 16GB RAM can reasonably last 10 years for average (non pro) use. With ipads RAM is still a limiting factor and even current gen pro may not age that well over the next 10 years (for instance an ipad pro 12.9 with 256GB storage and 4GB RAM with keyboard vs an equally priced laptop with 16GB RAM, a quad core i7 and 256GB SSD)