I used to play Faery Tale Adventure on Amiga. The anti-piracy was code phrases around the edge of a paper map.

Not UNIX-like, iOS is real UNIX.

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I’ve had to replace 4 USB-C cables that have failed in the past year, and I’ve never replaced a lightning cable. Seriously, the cable from my iPhone 6 Plus has outlasted 4 company cars, and is currently pulling charge duty in number 5.

That’s about the only advantage for me though.

Laptops were never charged with lightning and it makes zero sense that they ever would. It was never necessary and they received a LOT of hate over using USB-C on the laptops because they were extremely early to the party. The exact same hate was heaped on them when they implemented USB before everyone else.

You apparently don’t remember (or care) about how they faced a lot of backlash when they moved from the 30-pin to Lightning on iPhone. They promised accessory manufacturers that they wouldn’t change the iPhone port again for at least 10 years, and we are right at that mark. Other products have been transitioning to USB-C in a somewhat logical order. All of the products that charge with lightning now are iPhone accessories and there is little reason to have different charge ports on products that are meant to be used together.

The only argument that isn’t just pure ignorance seems to boil down to “Apple evil”

Literally everything. iMessage is a real messaging app with all of the bells and whistles. Blue means all of the features you want will work. Green means SMS, which is garbage.

iMessage gets you end to end encryption, read receipts, reactions, larger media sharing, functal group chats, and more.

RCS solves some of the shortcomings of SMS but it’s not a feature that Apple supports.