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We went entirely the wrong direction with phones. The whole idea behind the smartphone was to make the phone more like your PC. Then we started moving in the opposite direction, trying to make PCs more like phones. Then we started removing all ports and fixability from phones (and then, as is the theme, following suit with computers.) It's infuriating. Frankly I'm team "phones should have full-size USB-A ports" so having no options in this situation is frustrating. I'm sorry.
Soon: smarthouses like phones. A leak in the pipes means you have to buy a whole new house. But that will be the least of your worries, because most problems with your plumbing will need debugging, and I don't mean those nice little biological bugs, but the nasty, incorporeal ones. You won't be doing the debugging either, because it's all proprietary, you will likely need to wait for the next update before you can shower with hot water. Let's just hope the browser doesn't freeze the whole security system, locking you inside while cloudflare verifies that you are a human.