Yep, definitely. A bigger problem is the additional heat generated, especially if the phone is also being used at the same time.

The last phone I owned that had a propriety cable, apart from Apple, was a Sony-Ericsson Walkman phone. There was also the Sony Xperia phones, but they had USB as well as their proprietary connector. This was well over a decade ago.

I’m genuinely baffled by this one.

Yeah, it’s kinda tedious really.

Thin skinned bunch, aren’t they?

Yeah, if they don’t want them undercutting the local workforce, that’s fair enough.

At best, you come off as a smug prat.