They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.
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nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 3 weeks agothe 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
JWBananas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
They were earning millions from lightning royalities
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
And theypromised to do so for at least 10 years.
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 3 weeks ago
we promise we’ll use the inferior, proprietary connector
JWBananas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. The downvote button is not an “I don’t like this” button.
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
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.
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.