Well, we simply disagree on the issue. And that's ok! Reasonable people can disagree. We don't all have to operate our minds in lock step with each other.

My position is that there is a market for people who don't any multiple app store capability on their devices and they want to depend on it simply not being an issue, or an "option" that risks having to go to ten different fucking app stores to collect all the different apps they want. One store, one set of rules to live by. That's what they want, and there is a market for it. Apple serves that market. For everyone else, there's Android. I'm good with that and don't see it as a problem to be solved.

Even if a voice interface worked perfectly every time, it means that:

1). You will annoy everyone around you with the incessant talking to, or listening to the phone.

2). You have to use headphones nearly everywhere, all of the time.

3). Some combination of outcomes 1 and 2.

So, it STILL sucks.

Not to mention that some tasks are inherently visual for a lot of people. For example, for me (and I can't imagine I am unique), the process of composing writing involves me looking at what I composed and revising it, usually multiple times, before sending it out. There is no way I could write an email of text message of any substantial nature, without seeing it as I go and after I think I'm done. Just no way. Might as well just make it a phone call.

And what about all the tasks a phone is used for that are simply not able to be completed without a display. Playing Tetris for example.

Overall? It's just hyped up silly talk.

No doubt that some of them don't bother wiping their dirty asses too.

They don't HAVE to pay for health insurance no matter how many hours their employees work (except possibly in the usual commie jurisdictions like CA, MA, NY, etc.).

They simply have a POLICY of doing so. They can always revise that policy, if they so desire.

I need to "see something" every time I use my phone. So...uh, yeah...fuck that.

Despite what Amazon says, this will eliminate some warehouse worker jobs. This is great because many of those people bitching and moaning about their Amazon warehouse jobs will have their futures freed up to find jobs that they like much better.

Because it is a bad thing.

Last thing most people want is shit they will never use pre-installed on their devices.

If they don't want to follow Apple's policies, they can choose not to develop for Apple devices.

My Rolex says otherwise.

If you don't want to use a device with only one App Store, don't. There's still that option.

In pro choice. If you don't want the walled garden, choose android. If you want it, choose Apple.

I'm also pro choice for companies. If you want to build a system with a "walled garden", do so. If you don't, then don't.

Why not? They charge $119 for a 16 Pro Max replacement. That is well within the "$100 or so" that I said.

Hell, even if it were $200, it's well worth it, compared to having a battery that has degraded to 75% capacity.

Just for fun, I checked my battery health. It's at 99%. Not bad, for a phone that is 7 months old. At that rate, at 70 months old, it would be down to around 89%. Seems perfectly acceptable to me. Even at DOUBLE THAT RATE, it would be at 79%, which is barely at the level that requires replacement. So, even with an unrealistically aggressive degradation rate, it's almost 9 years before a required battery replacement.....which costs $119. It's also long past the point where most people would have already replaced the phone./

Honestly, I don't understand the complaints,

I'm not. I was talking about what other people complain about.

You can't blame your faulty dick on his mother. I mean, that was probably the first time it had been anywhere NEAR a pussy. Since it didn't look like your hand, it just didn't know what to do. Not his mom's fault.

Give it time. The dickheads in congress will eventually decree that third party app stores be pre-installed on the devices shipped by Apple.

Probably along with 3rd party browsers, third party payment apps, third party shitware of any kind, provided their lobbyists make suitable donations to Congress critters.