Comment on European iPhones are more fun now

• nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  the stupidest thing is iPad had USB-C since 2018! and yet on iPhones they latched on to lightning for another 6 years before EU forced them to standardize

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  • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s because they’ve been pushing the iPad as a sort of Mac Lite, but they can’t do that unless you can plug peripherals into it.

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  • JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They were earning millions from lightning royalities

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      • Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And theypromised to do so for at least 10 years.

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      • JWBananas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The two are not mutually exclusive. The downvote button is not an “I don’t like this” button.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “We promise to keep increasing our profit by overcharging customers for awful cables they can’t get anywhere else”

      What a dumb promise

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    • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Phones used to have a round charger socket, a USB socket that could also be used to charge, plus the headphone socket and SD card slot. I’m sure they could have found room for both USB C and Lightning, with all the other things that were removed.

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• hushable@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  no no no, that was just Apple being brave /s

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    IPhone 16, with 30% more courage

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