Steve Friess

Deep within Apple’s labyrinthine website, beyond its beloved laptops, phones, and tablets, is a class of items that are universally reviled. The company’s lightning cords were introduced four years ago to immediate disapproval that has never waned. On Reddit, Tumblr and, uh, Apple.com, people register the same central complaints. The cords don’t work. They break. They’re expensive and tedious to replace. The 1-meter version has a cumulative rating of 1.5 stars out of 5 on Apple’s website. And now they’re about to get even more inescapable.

The fact that Barack Obama woke up today marks a major historical milestone—yet it’s likely to go largely unnoticed. It’s now been 18,967 days since a US president died in office. That means the nation has now entered its longest period without losing a president to an assassin or illness.