Comment on iPhone 15 buyers will be reminded Lightning cables are now landfill

Cabrio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• handhookcardoor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or leave Apple Store staff alone because they had nothing to do with any of that?

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  • Cabrio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Maybe they should talk to their employers about being forced to act like corporate mouthpieces.

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    • WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you think Apple store employees have the CEOs phone number on autodial?

      You’re complaining to the girl at checkout about prices like she has anything to do with it.

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      • Cabrio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        She has a boss doesn’t she? You act like there isn’t a chain of command like she can’t go to her manager and refuse to be a corporate shill.

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    • hedgehog@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I hope you’re not actually as rude to retail workers, waitstaff, and other members of the service industry as your comments make you seem like you’d be

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      • Cabrio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not ruse to anybody who isn’t rude to me.

        But if someone is going to act like a braindead mouthpiece for a corporation then I will tell them why they’re wrong.

        I never said be mean to staff, or rude. And you can’t point out where I have because it didn’ t happen. You can still tell staff that insist on telling you that regulators are the cause of e-waste to inform themselves of their corporations decisions and how they sound parroting lies.

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    • Veedem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Do you have any idea how many people are NOT going to be aware of the change and, if the sales people don’t tell them, it’s going to be a steady stream of Karen after Karen in the store. The general public doesn’t follow the tech news like this. Most of them aren’t going to be aware they’ll need a new cable if they need more than what’s in the box.

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      • Cabrio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • DeadlineX@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “You get what you vote for”. My friend, you are unfamiliar with American politics it seems. Corruption exists in the world and gerrymandering is a problem in the us. I implore you to see others with empathy instead of hatred.

      This comes off very condescending and xenophobic. I get that other countries have better rights. I’d love to have that. But if you don’t quite know the extent of what you’re hatefully spewing, maybe try to see things through others shoes instead of insulting them. We are all people and the world would be a better place if everyone realized that.

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• garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or lightning was available first before usbc, and apple went with that and just has been stubborn to change.

  Looks like lightning in 2012 and usbc in 2014.

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  • stonedemoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple developed lightning. It had the same transfer rate as USB 2.0 which had been out for over a decade. It wasn’t about being “stubborn”, it was about being proprietary.

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    • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s a fair point. Apple has been known to do that in the past with FireWire.

      But I guess on the issue of whether or not — at the time, two years before usb-c was readily available — apple should have used usb-c or lightning (the thing they helped make), you would assume they would go with lightning over waiting until an unknown amount of time for another plug to be available.

      When I say they were stubborn to change from that, they were/are simply stubborn to change from that. I wish they would have pulled the bandaid off when they switched to usb-c on iPad.

      Though, that said, barring speed/power, I do actually think the lightning connector is a superior design. It’s simpler, and there’s nothing to break inside the port on the phone/device. I wish usb-c was physically the same or similar.

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      • stonedemoman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I still have to disagree. There was no reason for them to develop lightning in the first place. It has 0 advantages over technology already available at the time, and their adapters use the technology they’re trying to upsell anyways- USB.

        As for the last subjective part of your statement: “The Apple Community forums are full of people posting stories about their broken cables, and it appears to be one of the most common issues that Apple users are facing.”

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      • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        FireWire was legitimately superior at the time, particularly for video transfer.

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  • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Apple helped develop USB-C too as they are members of the consortium. No (non-self-serving) reason why they couldn’t have delayed the swap an additional year or two back then.

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