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I think the problem is that between lightning cables and USB-C, one is made by an asshole company who wants you to use it for your phone and literally nothing else, and one is useful for your phone and literally everything else.

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12 points

Funnily enough, Apple co-developed USB, introduced it in their laptops and everyone complained.

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8 points

They complained because they literally stripped away most or all the usb-a’s in that process, forcing people to have to use hubs.

Apple does this shit all the time, and people always hate it.

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3 points

Apple is successful dongle company that also makes some hardware.

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Because they ONLY did it to the laptops, you fuck. People complain about change just to complain it changed.

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10 points

No need to insult me. Are you a teenager?

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2 points

lightning suffered the same fate as FireWire before it: excellent protocol that would have benefited the users with mass adoption, hampered by Apple and their co-developers (in lightning’s case, Intel) charging too steep of licensing fees, rendering them niche

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USB-C wasn’t really useful for anything when Lightning was introduced, on account of it not even existing as a spec, let alone actual hardware, until 2 years later.

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