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EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force
(www.france24.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Thinking like that, I bought an ipad gaming controller for a friend's child. Turns out NOTHING worked until you connected it via a well hidden USB cable to a Windows(!) computer, downloaded a firmware flasher and updated the firmware. So Even "it is easy and works" is a lie. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice...
Nah - Macbooks were an alternative at work purely because they are less shit than Windows and corporate allowed them. I have since freed myself from corporate IT jackasses and use my self installed linux box for work. But beyond that, all of Apple is - as you say - absolutely overpriced dogshit.