Not as if Microsoft is any better. Does remind me though of a monitor cable I accidentally drilled through in 1998 on my Gateway computer. The power cord was severed and when I went to shops to get an estimate and repair I was told can’t be done, the cable is hard wired and all Gateway components are proprietary, so it is cheaper to contact Gateway and buy a new monitor. Needless to say I never did business with Gateway again.
But, I have been driving BMW since 2009 and they have a sweetheart deal with Apple, other phones can be paired to the cars but few of us have the expertise to do it, and even then some of the functions are not compatible, so I was forced to adopt iPhone technology in order to get the full range of use out of the car.
I am now so disgusted with Apple that I would rather not even have a cell phone than get another Apple product. But then when it comes to telephony in the USA any of you that have spent significant time outside the country know we are paying hundreds of percent more for it than a lot of the rest of the world, sort of like phone companies learned their capitalism from prescription drug manufacturers. In Australia I had to get an Australian sim card for my iPhone and Optis, the phone company I went with there charged 20 (AUS not US) per month for unlimited use.
