If "we" are "people who buy Apple products", then "we" want Apple to design their own connectors because their tightly controlled accessory ecosystem has result

If "we" are "people who buy Apple products", then "we" want Apple to design their own connectors because their tightly controlled accessory ecosystem has resulted in convenient and dependable third party products. Not unlike the situation with apps from their apps store. Not everyone gets to throw anything they want in there - and that does have its downsides. But it also has its benefits. Benefits that "we" have voted for, with our dollars, time and again. Now, if "we" are "consumers in general", "we" can simply choose not to buy Apple products if we don't like them. "We" are free to find someone else who adheres to standards and see what an ecosystem of standards-based products looks like. And surely "we" know by now that Apple is going to make its own connectors whenever it likes. So this is no real surprise.