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0 pointssbuk2y ago0 comments

Lazy reasoning. Previous bad press when changing 30-pin to lightning.

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The bad press was because it was a proprietary-connector-against-a-newer-proprietary-connector.

Had Apple changed for USB-C at the time, or USB mini, it would have made the same positive press as when the Macbook Pro got back to normal (ie not “Here’s a single port for everything, go buy an Apple dongle if you want to plug a screen”).

sbukOP2y ago

The USB-C spec wasn't finalised until the following year and only fully standardised in 2016. The USC-C port, which Apple contributed to considerably first appeared in 2015. Micro USB, which superseded Mini USB, was and remains to be complete and utter shite. Lightning was actually well received by the tech press of the time for being significantly better than Micro USB. The "bad press" was users on this site, among others, whining about their other 30-pin gadgets.

InTheArena2y ago

No, it really wasn’t. It was people and places that had invested in 30 pin sudden;ly having those be useless.

USB was _awful_ at that point.

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