Part of the confusion is from names and wording:  "Apple TV", Apple TV+", "Apple TV app" 

Few people I knew understood that Apple TV was not the same as Apple TV+ or that they were different things that did different things.   Now they'll be hearing about the "Apple TV app" and trying to figure out what that is.

His argument only fails once you realize Apple forced its customers to go out and buy USB-C bricks to support the USB-C cable it included in with its phone.  Prior to that, most used the obsolete 5W chargers Apple had been supplying.

So, you already had one?   Should we applaud?

AP reports that Facebook staff have strong disagreements about how, after the 2020 election they loosened controls over disinformation, hate speech and conspiracy theories.

"measures were rolled back at some point after the election, according to an internal spreadsheet analyzing the company’s response. “As soon as the election was over, they turned them back off or they changed the settings back to what they were before, to prioritize growth over safety"

Those disagreements were on full display on the January 6th attack on our democracy -- which was openly planned on Facebook. 

But further, and even more ominous, AP reports how Facebook works to actively divide the nation:

"[a] test account, using the fake name Carol Smith, indicated a preference for mainstream news sources like Fox News, followed humor groups that mocked liberals, embraced Christianity and was a fan of Melania Trump.

Within a single day, page recommendations for this account generated by Facebook itself had evolved to a “quite troubling, polarizing state,” the study found. By day 2, the algorithm was recommending more extremist content, including a QAnon-linked group, which the fake user didn’t join because she wasn’t innately drawn to conspiracy theories.

A week later the test subject’s feed featured “a barrage of extreme, conspiratorial and graphic content,” including posts reviving the false Obama birther lie and linking the Clintons to the murder of a former Arkansas state senator. Much of the content was pushed by dubious groups run from abroad or by administrators with a track record for violating Facebook’s rules on bot activity."

And that is consistent with what Jon Stewart reported:  that users are pushed by Facebook deeper and deeper into whichever political preferences they might have -- thus creating a deeper divide and a more radicalized population.

So, we not only have to contend with religious and political groups promoting their radical beliefs and agendas -- but now we have (social) media profiting from helping them promote it -- and thus dividing and radicalizing the people of this country.

Amid the Capitol riot, Facebook faced its own insurrection

My first accounting job out of college in the early 70's was with an RCA plant that manufactured police radios.

One of the policies of that plant was to use small & medium sized suppliers as much as possible because, with its size, it had leverage over them.   Simply put:  the company could run any supplier out of business simply by no longer buying from them.  Those suppliers had to toe the line set by RCA or die.

I suspect the same principle -- LEVERAGE -- exists here with a demand for exclusivity.

Once a company sinks a few billion into a plant devoted only to Apple's wants and needs, it is at Apple's mercy -- which has never been one of its strong points.

Just to compare how far this came:  In 1986 I had to set up an online demonstration of a computer system for 20-30 executives of a steel company up in Detroit.  To do so I had to use bleeding edge technology:

I lugged a state of the art "portable computer" up to Detroit.   I was a 40 pound Compaq the size of a small overnight suitcase.  The keyboard clipped onto the front of it and was connected by a cord.  It also had a black & white screen about 3-4 inches square.

There was of course no mouse or trackpad since this was all done with DOS.

For a "Projector" I used a Kodak screen transparency that laid on top of an overhead projector and was connected to the laptop via (I think) a serial cable.

Going form that to having something with a real screen, mouse and keyboard all in a single unit that could sit on your lap was like a moon shot in comparison -- just 5 years later.  

The pace of computer technology advancements back then was mind boggling.