I understand and sympathize with your frustration. A month ago I threw out about 10 gallons of cables (it was a 10 gallon garbage bag) that I had collected over

I understand and sympathize with your frustration. A month ago I threw out about 10 gallons of cables (it was a 10 gallon garbage bag) that I had collected over the years. I have a pile of drive enclosures with at least 4 different port connectors on the outside and at least 3 different interfaces connecting the drives to the ports. I have to use two different dongles to connect the 3 monitors I have to my two different machines, one of which I can't upgrade beyond OS X Leopard because it's PowerPC. I take issue with the held hostage hyperbole, though. Yeah, you're inconvenienced by the OS/hardware options you have available. Your freedom of movement is not at stake. Your life is not at risk. I know it's fashionable to take poetic license and raise the stakes for everyday inconveniences, but let's keep things in perspective. Nothing's preventing you from using your old phone, or switching to another platform, or buying a couple of inexpensive dongles (very inexpensive relative to the hardware you've chosen to buy into).