Sent from an iPhone probably having USB-C because of the EU.

I charge my phone wirelessly. The presence of a port isn't a positive for me. It's just a hole I could do without. The shape of the hole isn't important.

Besides, I posted from my laptop.

Just because they occasionally (and even frequently) do good thing, does not mean that overall their policies don't harm them own economies.

The economy does not exist in a vacuum. Making number go up isn't the end goal, it is to improve citizens lives and society as a whole. Everything is a tradeoff.