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Why would you be against standardizing messaging over the net? How is that a bad thing?

If you didn't have your faith, do you think you would've ended up in your position?

As someone involved in engineering boards with both USB 2.0 and 3.0 the costs are negligible. You're not wrong about more traces or about it requiring more attention but per phone this cost less then a few cents.

I think it's more about the upsell to the Pro line or as you suggested encouraging use of iCloud.