Things we have today as a standard thanks to Apple:
- Non-replaceable batteries that suck you in a whole ecosystem of battery banks and throw the phone when the battery dies: Check
Hey Apple and everybone else - you know what is better than the best battery bank? A %@#$@# SPARE BATTERY !!!
- Sim card trays requiring a tool to extract, forcing you to carry one on your keychain, which eventually will pierce your pocket and your nuts because it's basically a needle: Check
- Absolute refusal to adopt swappable memory cards, as it allows them to charge $200 for the next storage memory step, for hardware that costs them (or at least used to) $7 at the manufacturing level: Check
- An extension to the above: storage plans, and the continuous push of the concept that cloud storage is better than a memory card that can be swapped in seconds: Check
- A pitched battle against USB charging and any non-proprietary universal charging standard till the European Union forced them to: Check
- No more headphone jack: Check
- Airpods that can be located on a map 1000 miles away, but don't beep or chime once you're 20ft away (not even with a gradually increasing pitch so they don't damage anyone's ears if you try to locate them while they are being worn). Effectively making them into a wear & replaceable item, at a rate of about one pair per year when you have teenagers at home: Check
Misunderstand me not: I don't blame them for doing it. I blame them for proving to others that they can get away with such crap, effectively making every single choice of theirs into a standard, because their choices are the most efficiently money-milking ones.
Also I'm not an apple-hater, I used to manage about a hundred at work and when they were needed - they were needed.
