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Back in the olden times, when I first got into personal computing, there were IBM PC's and IBM PC clones (amongst Commodore, Tandy, et al), then came the Apples and right off the bat they were proprietary (IBM tried mirroring this proprietary bullshit with microchanneling, which thankfully failed), and just like that I was an enemy of all things Apple and proprietary.
Clones could be upgraded simply and easily and everyone was making motherboards, hard drives, floppy drives, sound cards, ram, etc etc etc for clones, and only Apple was making Apple things for Appple.
In the 40 years since, absolutely nothing at all has changed, and I chalk it up to a lack of personal intelligence and self worth, whenever I run into, or see online, anyone who's bought into the apple universe in any way.
I simply laugh. It's just so fucking stupid.
Do you build your own phone hardware?
Clones could be upgraded simply and easily and everyone was making motherboards, hard drives, floppy drives, sound cards, ram, etc etc etc for clones, and only Apple was making Apple things for Appple
Exactly. For another example, see: D&D fiasco early this year. D&D has long been a bastion for 3rd party writers and homebrew creators. Both commercial and free to use. Hasbro (company owning D&D) tried to take D&D proprietary and impose insane restrictions on 3rd party creators. Seeing as the current edition of D&D is a LOT more functional with 3rd party content (their adventures are crap, and too few) this was insane. And the community rightly shit all over Hasbro so hard they not only withdrew their attempt to lock the game down, but consigned the current edition to a generous Creative Commons license they couldn't even attempt to undo.
If you look back or watch this Extra Credits video on the history, you can see the same attempt repeat over the decades. Again and again you see standards-compliant, open source, FOSS and similar products being exceedingly popular and spawning a host of new creative ventures and market competition. And it's always better for the specific environment and userbase.
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Frankly, who even uses the USB port on their phone for data transfers unless it's an emergency? I just stream media from my NAS using Navidrome and Jellyfin, use Syncthing to back up my photos and sync files I need, and mount the SMB shares I need to access. The eMMC and SD cards are slower than USB 3 speeds, anyway. Most SD cards don't even max out USB 2.
The only sensible real life use case for USB 3 for phones would be external monitors.
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I know it sounds awful but on the other hand Linus explains why it's like that in this video https://youtu.be/7KuLMe6KSVQ?si=DAdNH3JlZ4HShIYZ
Not trying to justify it, just it's good to know why.