> What makes these worth that much when there are so many options?

You want to be seen in public wearing this object

You are wearing it wrong?

Then don't use them?

> On my iPhone, there is no such ability. As a US citizen, I must go through the Apple-approved App Store to download / install third-party software. Smells like freedom.

That's the effect of a complete lack of antitrust. In the US corporations can do the fuck they want

> And there’s the whole thing with the second USB-C port only supporting USB 2 speeds. That stinks. But if Apple could sell a one-port MacBook a decade ago, they can sell one with a shitty second port today.

This is the kind of reasoning behind why I can not take any Apple product review seriously, or any Apple fan seriously.

It's a false comparison, because you are aggregating hardware and OS vendors in the same category while Apple is actually the one doing both.

Because infertility may not be the only reason behind people not procreating in 2026?

At least with people fighting with infertility, they want to have children, so helping them have children is more straightforward list of actions than convincing people who don't want kids to have them.

Yes it's 150 girls' fault to have gone to school near a military target. Man, sober up please.

The final boss of "I don't care about nonwhite human lives"

Another important difference is that at least in theory the end goal of a government is the well being of its citizens, while for private companies it is profit.