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I never got to the point you are at because I could never get over the USB jack. It took 30 fucking years and a lot of blood sweat and tears but finally finall
by rsync 10y ago
I never got to the point you are at because I could never get over the USB jack.
It took 30 fucking years and a lot of blood sweat and tears but finally finally there is a global, universal, cheap and simple charging standard that just works. You can find a USB port anywhere and there are extra cables everywhere and life is just slightly better all around.
Except for Apple.
- cm2187 10y agoWell, mini USB, then micro USB, then USB-C, then... I have to change my cables every 5 years, not exactly "a" global standard.
- yoodenvranx 10y agoI have to change my cables every 1-2 years because they will inevitably break with normal usage.
- WatchDog 10y agoI must be abnormal, as I have never broken a USB cable.
- yoodenvranx 10y agoI play a lot of Ingress and Pokemon Go with an external battery. Due to the movement and flexing while walking around, the cable destroys itself.
- developer2 10y agoYou're in the minority. Normal people don't break cables. The latest Apple cables still have the cheap rubber sleeve peel away, but you can rip it off entirely and have the metal-coated cable last years without the wire fraying. If you're actually fraying the wire itself, you are treating your phone extremely poorly. I am not gentle with my equipment, and I've never had an Apple cable fall apart to the point of needing replacement.
- corin_ 10y agoAnecdotally I know many, many people who complain about regularly breaking cables, both Apple and non-Apple. Myself included. You ought to give data not anecdotal experience if you want to claim what "most" people do.
- sbd01 10y agoI've washed my micro-usb cable in the laundry more times than I can count, and it still works absolutely fine. I'm not sure how these cables are broken by normal use.
- prodmerc 10y agoApple - Be exceptional. Or the exception. Whatever, just pay us :D
- ropiku 10y agoApple already had their standard before there was USB-C. Do you think yet another port migration would be well received ?
- dfrey 10y agoYou are correct that Lightning predated USB type C, but Lightning is proprietary and thus is not a standard.
- eridius 10y agoIt certainly is a standard, it's just a proprietary one. The word "standard" does not mean it has to be open and free for anyone to implement.
- phasmantistes 10y agoThat's actually exactly what "standard" means in a discussion where people know we're likely referencing ISO and IEEE.
- eridius 10y agoNobody mentioned ISO or IEEE. You're projecting your own expectations onto a conversation that did not even reference them.
- Dylan16807 10y agoWhen people talk about whether a cable is "standard" or not, they are drawing distinctions between different types of cable. By your definition every cable is standard, or at least every cable that can connect to two models by the same manufacturer. That's a useless definition. People don't mean that, they mean something adopted by ISO/IEEE or similarly available for anyone to use with a lot of adopters.
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- ubernostrum 10y agoSo your phone has a USB type A socket in it? Or are you misrepresenting how you have one eternal ageless never-deprecated never-changing way to connect your phone to things?