“We promise to keep increasing our profit by overcharging customers for awful cables they can’t get anywhere else”
What a dumb promise
Comment on European iPhones are more fun now
JWBananas@lemmy.world 2 months agoThey were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 2 months ago
They were earning millions from lightning royalities
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
And theypromised to do so for at least 10 years.
nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 2 months ago
we promise we’ll use the inferior, proprietary connector
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Honestly Lightning wasn’t inferior when it launched in 2012, two years before the design of USB-C was even published. And in some ways I actually prefer it physically (though obviously I would much rather all my devices use USB-C now as it is a much superior connector).
Lightning was reversible where Micro-USB was not, and Lightning’s female port is entirely a hole that the entirely-a-prong male plug goes into, whereas with USB (like with most connectors) the female side has something sticking up inside it that slots into the male plug. This means Lightning is much easier to clean, which becomes necessary because phones in people’s pockets collect lint.
I’m thrilled that iPhone has moved to USB-C, but people forget how much better Lightning was than both the 30-pin iPod connector AND Micro-USB.
JWBananas@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The two are not mutually exclusive. The downvote button is not an “I don’t like this” button.