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Comment on European iPhones are more fun now
Zwiebel@feddit.org 3 weeks agoThey were earning millions from lightning royalities
JWBananas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
Absolutely it was better. But it’s hard to believe that Apple, who was a part of the USB-IF, didn’t know USB-C was in the works. My conspiracy theory is they knew an open standard was imminent and launched lightning to keep getting those MFI licensing checks and purposely made that long of a commitment strictly so, when regulators asked why they hadn’t switched to the new standard yet, they could say it was to “help the environment.”