Consider this: A person has their iPhone battery replaced with a cheap Chinese 3rd party battery. A month later, the battery catches fire, injuring the person. Which headline do you honestly believe will run:
Apple iPhone catches fire, injures owner.
Unauthorized replacement iPhone battery catches fire, injures owner.
This reminds me of the legend of “Mr. Bones Wild Ride.”
The way I see it, there a pattern:
Some companies rush some new tech to market and it’s clunky / not user-friendly / a flop.
Apple releases their own version of same tech, but it has a refined user-friendly interface that’s popular and successful.
The other companies work to revise their products to match Apple’s successful version.
Haters all scramble to say “Apple didn’t do it first, blah blah blah…”
I have an old thinkpad that I’ve turned into a HomeBridge/ Print server / media server / wireless backup base.
It has Ubuntu on it, an external drive shared via SMB for movies, CUPS for print serving, HoneBridge to manage all of my home automation, and another external SMB share to run automated backup from my regular laptops.
Bioshock.
Red Dead Redemption (and RDR2).
Portal.