Apple annoys me for a lot of reasons. Seems like I’m not the only one. Recently, members of the EU have been pushing to force tech companies to adopt a single universal charging method.
Now this makes a lot of sense. First of all, obsolete cables generate an estimated 51,000 tons of waste per year, so this would help reduce that significantly if cables can be reused. Secondly, Apple has been abusing its own consumers by making them buy different charging wires for their laptops, phones, and other devices. It’s the biggest rip off I’ve seen in a while, and it’s not like they can’t make it a single charging wire either. They simply choose not to and jack up the price to squeeze every dollar out of us as they can. And for some reason, we don’t stop buying.
I would’ve thought nobody would buy an iPhone after they literally admitted to slowing their phones down through software updates. Or after they got rid of the headphone jack and everyone had to buy a dongle or airpods. We’re all sheep, playing into their hand every time and allowing them to screw us with every move.
This, however, is quite the development. I applaud the lawmakers heading this movement, as they would at least slightly stop Apple from using its shady tactics. I don’t have too much faith though, since Apple has done this before and still found a way out. Apparently, in 2009, many tech companies signed a memorandum of understanding in 2009 to provide micro-USB compatible chargers for consumers. Apple, however, ended up using a loophole that they can continue to use their chargers if they also provide an adapter. Hopefully, no such loophole can be found this time and Apple can be forced to do some good.
I’ve always hated how large companies prioritize their profits over the common man, like myself. It’s a story much older than me, but has no solution in sight. Whenever people get into power, regardless of how good their intentions were, get corrupted easily by the thought of their success over that of the people around them. Everyone always thinks they can hold their own needs above everyone else’s because they’re special. Let me be the first to tell them that they are not, especially with my experience in being special. Just because you went to a good school and have found success does not make you any better than anyone else who is still working on it — just like my skin being yellow does not make me different from anyone else. My skin color didn’t give me any special treatment growing up, and I still deal with it every day of my life. It seems like a lot of adults today are dealing with issues I had to work through as a child because of my condition. If only they had experienced what I had to…
Yellow Guy 