• fulg@lemmy.world
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    9 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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      9 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

      • BURN@lemmy.world
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        9 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.

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        9 months ago

        Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

        Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector, created and designed by Apple Inc. It was introduced on September 12, 2012, in conjunction with the iPhone 5, to replace its predecessor, the 30-pin dock connector. The Lightning connector is used to connect Apple mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and iPods to host computers, external monitors, cameras, USB battery chargers, and other peripherals. Using 8 pins instead of 30, Lightning is much smaller than its predecessor. The Lightning connector is reversible.

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            9 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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            9 months ago

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

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            9 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.