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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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      • TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, they made it to 3 trillion with cables, overpriced PCs, overpriced notebooks, overpriced Phones, overpriced watches, and locking software of all these so the easiest way to use different devices together, is to use another apple product.

        Oh, and cultivating a fan base of people who uncritically buy anything they make with the notion that it’s “better than anything else” when in reality that could not be further from the truth.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah but there has to be some reason they were so opposed to this. I don’t get it either though.

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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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