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I've been boycotting Apple for the past fifteen years. I tend to avoid any systems that are closed or proprietary by design. It's becoming increasingly difficult to adhere to this principle due to the profit motives for this practice. Notable examples of late are electric car chargers. You would imagime that there are different electrons in your battery compared with other people's but no, physics is truly universal. It's the car makers that dream up these differences and create incompatible battery interfaces. Compare that with petroleum products, one can fill a tank anywhere and it works the same, as it should do.
Unless you put gas in your diesel, or diesel in your gas vehicle.
We also used to have leaded four star and two star (here in the UK). Nowadays there's higher octane unleaded fuel. These differences serve a purpose for engines with greater compression ratios. The point about lithium battery chargers is that they can easily use the same physical interface and detect the nature of a battery using standard methods. The same way you can charge any mobile phone from any USB port - except Apple.
Battery powered hand tools are also brand specific, for no discernible reason. It's wasteful and it will hopefully be banned.