Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger

• Rootiest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more

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  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • Rootiest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If only they had the foresight to predict the needs of their customers a year or two in the future.

      Or maybe they just went with Lightning because they could take a cut off every product using their proprietary connector.

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  • dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are you seriously complaining that they didn’t wait for a tech that hadn’t even been announced or released yet? Do they have a time machine or crystal balls now in Cupertino?

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    • Rootiest@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They were well aware of it, even contributed to the design

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      • dpkonofa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Again, this was after Lightning was already designed, released, and had millions of accessories made for it. It doesn’t change the point at all.

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• wavebeam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your downvote count is insane, because you’re right. People on lemmy, just like on reddit, use android and like to feel superior for hating on Apple. That’s basically all it comes down to. Apple introduced a new connector a decade ago, called their shot, and usb-c caught up during that time. Now that Apple is fulfilling their plans everyone who was never going to buy an iPhone anyway is shouting “what took you so long?”

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  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The downvote count is insane because they are talking out of their arse and drinking the Apple propaganda.

    USB-C “caught up” with lightning a decade ago.

    If it was such an awesome connector, they would still also use it in their MacBooks.

    If Apple really cared about their customers getting the better connector, they would have changed it on the Iphone at the same time they did on the MacBooks.

    But they didn’t, because Iphone is their cash cow, so they wanted to scrape as much money from their users as possible, until the EU forced them to change.

    This isn’t about IOS being superior to Android. This is about Apple doing anti-consumer practices and getting called out for it.

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