It’s good that regulators put a stop to Apple producing even more proprietary BS cables then.
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Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year agoApple is trying to claim it’s the fault of regulators that usb-c to lightning cables will be useless e-waste despite being the wankers that chose to use lightning instead of usb-c in the first place.
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lightning predates USB C by like two years
Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
But not USB as a standard it doesn’t. They still chose proprietary over standard because wankers.
Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Micro usb fucking sucked. Being a standard doesn’t mean shit when the standard is shit.
stonedemoman@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What the fuck are you talking about? Lightning cable specs were identical to micro USB.
Aux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nah, they didn’t suck.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sure, but that moves us out of a conversation about e-waste
Cabrio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yep, the e-waste conversation is bullshit apple propaganda because they aren’t happy about playing nice with competitors and losing proprietary control of their connectors despite it being the same e-waste as if they were upgrading from or to any other standard.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was a bit skeptical of your statement, because it FELT like they came out at the same time; but you are completely correct. The iPhone 5 with lightning was released Sep 2012, and the USB-C standard was published in Aug 2014. Almost exactly 2 years later. The first smartphone with USB-C didn’t come out until a full year later, though. So lightning was more like 3 years ahead in the phone world.
eskimofry@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Two years is like no time in the land of technology standards. Apple did not know whats going to happen in 2 years? Come on!
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They weren’t going to keep a huge 40 pin connector for two extra iPhone models or spend two years on microusb just to quickly switch to usb-c. And I think they went with the 40-pin over micro-usb as they already had a base of consumers with those cables from the success of iPods. If Wikipedia is correct micro usb was only announced six months prior to the original iPhone.