• fulg@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    To be fair, USB-C didn’t exist when Lightning was introduced, and it was vastly superior to Micro-USB.

    It doesn’t really have any reason to exist now…

    Agreed with your other points though!

    I have an old iPad that I try to reuse for another purpose and all the locks to stop me to keep using it make it such a pain in the butt, when the alternative is simply to enable developer mode on an Android tablet.

    Thankfully I remembered when buying a laptop and skipped the very enticing M-series hardware, because in 5-7 years that thing is a brick destined for the landfill.

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            10 months ago

            Obviously it would be updated? Why would it be obvious when Apple hasn’t updated it at all, it was introduced in the Iphone 5 where it had USB 2 speeds, the Iphone 14 also has lightning connection and has… USB 2 speeds.

            10 years and no update. Seems more like you liking Apple to mucb to think rather then us hating them too much.

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            10 months ago

            Ah right, obviously you would change the core specs, how stupid of me

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            10 months ago

            So basically you would want every device to use a nonexistent updated lightning just because “it feels better”? Are you aware that lightning is a proprietary connector?

            Additionally, USB-C debuted only two years later than lightning, so age is no excuse here.

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      10 months ago

      To be fair, USB-C didn’t exist when Lightning was introduced

      Hmm, I wonder why that was?

      Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector, created and designed by Apple Inc. It was introduced on September 12, 2012

      Design for the USB-C connector was initially developed in 2012 by Apple Inc. and Intel.

      So Apple helped develop USB-C but failed to integrate it into their products for a decade. Now, why would they do that?

      Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C

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        10 months ago

        Because it’s not a superior connector. Lightning is better as a purely charging port. It’s less fragile and doesn’t have a million competing implementations. One of the most frustrating things about USB-C is you can’t be sure if a cable is actually going to work.