• Nioxic@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lets be fair. It was long overdue

      And a lightningport with usb 2.0 data transfer speeds with the pro res video… its just idiotic

      This is much needed

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            1 year ago

            Yes it wasn’t true because back then there was no real standard, but Apple kept it despite the fact that its basically garbage because its not compatible with others.

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              1 year ago

              idk if i agree with this. apple replaced the 30-pin connector w/ lightning in 2012, when the only other mainstream option would have been micro-usb cables which sucked ass then and suck ass now. lightning was great at the time not just because it was smaller than the 30-pin but also it was symmetrical compared to micro-usb

              the first usb-c compatible smartphones didn’t start arriving until like 3 years after that, by which point there were already hundreds of millions of lightning-compatible devices and an entire ecosystem existing in the wild.

              standards are great. pissing off your consumers again only a few years after a major transition, maybe not so much. but now after 11 years of lightning and 5+ years of usb-c being commonplace the bandaid is a lot easier to rip off