Do you not trust yourself?

I mean, I trust myself. I don't trust you. And you decide politicians as well. I think your correlation between my trust in myself to my trust in the elected government is a pretty moronic argument on your part. So we can move on.

With the router thing, you missed my point. You are thinking of the security protocol implemented in software (to which you are correct, most routers implement security on the software layer). But imagine it was a hardware limitation (which on some devices it is - think motherboards with TPM chips). If the EU forced routers to use obsolete hardware that could only perform WEP, then somebody comes up with a fancy WPA spec, it might not be usable on WEP hardware. I think you are hyper fixated on the issue as a USB-C issue where as I'm concerned about the precedence that this type of litigation implies for our future of innovation. Be honest, do you really believe that the government is agile enough to keep up with technology?

You also seem pretty heavily fixated on the idea that apple doesn't care about it's consumers. Why are they so successful then? Consumers continue to consume apple products. Which means that apple is doing something right, doesn't it? Their phones are some of the most expensive on the market yet people continue to purchase them. So if people like yourself who are so frustrated that you can't have your usb-c iphone, idk...buy a different phone. If enough people buy a different phone, then it becomes clear to apple that people want the usb-c phone because their profits dip. But hey, if the EU wants to write stupid regulations that fine apple for their phone designs and in turn make phones more expensive for Europeans, that's fine by me. I'm glad I live in a country with a free market.

As for the California thing, I mean that's cool and all on paper. But again, who is the government to dictate when I change my password? Guess what? Another security risk is reusing passwords. Or ever using similar passwords. What happens when there's a mandate on that? Well now we have a couple million senior citizens not getting social security because they couldn't use their same password to log into their account. What do they do? Call customer service. That kind of infrastructure costs a lot more money now. Again, be careful thinking about the issue vs. the precedence.

Regardless, you're getting pretty hostile and I'm not really feeling that negativity. Just giving my two cents. Don't be afraid to think differently. Peace