I have been in an abusive relationship with Apple since the mid-80s. They keep torturing me, and I keep buying their products. From the Apple II to the present, I have only cheated on them with some PCs in the 90s and some Samsung phones in the smartphone era. They are the company I love to hate, so you can imagine how weird it was for me to be defending Apple on television yesterday. Me? Defending Apple? The killers of the 3.5mm headphone jack... home of the $29-$45 dongle (of which you need a half dozen for each device just to function)... our batteries die so you will have to buy new stuff, Apple? Yep. That’s the one. …see more