Comment on My phone, iPad, and laptop finally all use the same USB-C charger. The galaxy is at peace.
SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 days agoWhich ‘port designed by Apple’? Apple’s Lightning is quite obviously more sturdy than usb-c, being just a puck with contacts, put into a hole with contacts and without flimsy plastic tongues. However, Lightning is more costly to produce, while afaik USB was always made from cheap sheet metal.
The moving parts are in the device rather than the cable with Lightning. The tongue on USB-C is required to be deep enough that you can’t torque it with the cable during insertion/removal.
It’s not an obvious comparison, but the mechanical engineers where I work seem to have a mild preference for USB-C
The expensive part of both is that you need a microcontroller in the cable
By ‘moving parts’ you mean the springed contacts? Yeah wow, that’s a lot of movement.
USB-C has more pins because it was made later and is required to carry standards like Displayport and Thunderbolt. If Apple made Lightning 2, nothing prevents them from slapping more contacts on it.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
USB-C (top) is based on the Cinema Display power connector (bottom) from the early 2000s:
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SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Interesting, but odd that it’s the first I’ve ever heard of this.