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• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And they actively fought against it for as long as they could, tooth and nail.

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  • dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s an uphill battle, why would Apple bother when just using USB-C makes sense and saves them their lawyers sanity?

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    • docmox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Money.

      Now that USB-C is the required cable, people can go out and buy any cheap cable they want. The law turned a proprietary cash cow into a low return commodity item.

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      • Redcedar@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This argument always cracks me up. I have been able to buy cheap lightning cables effectively since they started making lightning cables lol. It’s not like Apple somehow locks the phone from charging, physics is still a real thing and electricity can still flow through them, even without the MFi aspects.

        If you wanna hate Apple for being a massively bloated and money-hungry corporate nightmare, that’s fine, I’m with it, but do we really all think they made it to $3 trillion valuation on… fucking cables??? 😂

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    • whitecapstromgard@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apple wants to keep selling overpriced cables to losers.

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  • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If they were really fighting it that hard they could’ve stalled till 2025 when the EU law actually takes effect.

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    • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nah, the design specs for phones like this are done years in advance.

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      • June@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        So wait…. Are you suggesting they were already planing to switch before the EU law was passed?

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Apple will never do anything for any other reasons besides: regulation and profit. They try and foster this image of humanitarianism and ethics, but meanwhile they build everything in sweatshops and make their own “standards” so that their loyal customers can only use the functions they need by purchasing additional dongles.

  I’m happy that they were forced into an actual standard, but I’ve already heard at least two apple users IRL claiming that USB-C is inferior for [insert random reasoning here]. Apple has cultivated the idea that they are above standards for a long time and it will take a long time to break.

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You mean, just like every company that exists?

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    • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Apple is a corporation with a market cap that rivals the GDP of France and a net income that rivals the GDP of Qatar. That much capital consolidated within a singular private entity doesn’t just make them any other company. Their profit seeking is wildly, wildly different than a vast majority of any other company today.

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      • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Get tori head out of your ass. ALL companies will never do anything for any other reason besides profit. The size of said company doesn’t matter. A small company will fuck over its customers just as quickly if you let them.

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  • Kodemystic@lemmy.kodemystic.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The only reason they pass on an image of ethical environmentaly friendly company is because its good for business. People like that shit the products are good people buy. Its that simple. Companies give no shit about people or the planet.

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  • MrGeekman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I know. That’s my point. A great example of this is when they used to brag about how eco-friendly their product were. I remember them bragging about their displays being mercury-free, BFR free, etc and their laptops having totally recyclable aluminum and glass enclosures - only to later deliberately make their laptops nearly impossible to repair and upgrade.

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