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Comment on Saudi Arabia passes law requiring USB-C charges for smartphones

So, they agree to a common standard AFTER Apple has switched to Lightning. These ideas sound so great if you ignore timelines and what really happened when.

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Celivalg@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The world had subtlety agreed on a different standard (mico usb) when apple decided to do decide to switch to a proprietary one (lightning)

Granted, micro Usb is shit, but switching to a proprietary standard is worse as you force everyone to have something different.

Were lightning not proprietary, I could definitely see it overcomming micro usb everywhere

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- SaintWacko@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Oh for sure. If lightning had been opened up to everyone I think we’d all be using it now
  
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IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This thing has been brewing since 2009 and Apple has been a part of it since beginning but as it was voluntary we’ve all seen what happened.

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