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Sonys crap at least to my knowledge had broad compatibility. Whereas Apple often deliberately make sub-par experiences when not in their own turf. You just connected your sony-camera over usb, or just had a plastic adapter for the memory stick.

Seems right on par for the dongle-life that Apple was/is famous for and the lightning-connector alone has created me much more headache than Sony ever did. Which is impressive considering I've owned several Sony (or SonyEricsson) devices but I've never owned an Apple device. At least Sonys proprietary crap were decently priced, at least for the times I looked at it. Didn't enjoy it one bit but I didn't feel robbed.

Apples stunts in the past by deliberately making chargers incompatible is on a whole other level of evil but I guess that's prescribed by now. Sony put rootkits on CDs though so that is pretty extraordinarily bad too of course.

The reason you can connect anything to a mac is because Apple is the only rotten fruit left. Apples stuff work pretty darn terrible for everyone not in Apples ecosystem.

I don't want to pile on but I just can't see how what Sony did was bad but what Apple does isn't. Feels like people put a blind eye to everything they are dependent upon.