Yes, but there's no good reason for apple to use different cables, it's just part of their strategy. They screw people for as much as they can until the forgers catch up. No reason for them not to use UPnP/DLNA or any other open standards. They deliberately copy other ideas and then just tweak...
Bit late to this party as I've just got back from a very soggy week in the lake district.
Always had Android phones when I was working, but I'm retired and broke now, so when my last phone broke I inherited my daughters iPhone 5S about a year ago. It's a perfectly fine phone. IOS and Android...