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I use 10 Apple hardware devices currently, and have owned well over 100 since my first Mac 128K in 1984. I’m a sucker for Apple shit.
I kind of have to agree with the spirit of previous poster’s point. Apple does do annoying shit with port formats.
Between the four MacBooks in front of me, only two share the same main power format—and, of course, one of those can’t get enough juice from the other’s PSU.
Have two different formats for my iPads, and my partner’s iPhone and mine don’t share a format. That’s not remarkable, but the timing of the various iOS port format changes was frustrating, as certain devices made the port jump at the same time that their brethren did not.
I would finally note the rather large bouquet of different Apple wall-warts we have collected, also in two different formats, and a variety of wattages.
Finally, a lot of Apple’s cables have tips that seem purpose-built to fall apart, meaning even more trash in landfills.
The "purpose-built to fall apart" is real, I used to have a best friend who had to get new apple headphones every 2-3 weeks because they always somehow broke.
My apple headphone clones on the other hand lasted at best 2 years and at worst I can't say yet because this is the second pair I got from the manufacturer and they're still going strong. And I usually handle my headphones like shit, though not intentionally, of course, but the usual wear and tear.
Your friend is incredible if he's able to kill Apple's headphones in under a month. Unironically he should apply to work for some of these companies for QA if he's actually capable of doing that.
"I see the problem, you're going to want to not chew on those."