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If Apple were to drop lightning and switch all their phones to USB-C, the rest of the industry would move to USB-C much more rapidly. We may never be fully rid
by Reason077 8y ago
If Apple were to drop lightning and switch all their phones to USB-C, the rest of the industry would move to USB-C much more rapidly.
We may never be fully rid of USB-A since it's embedded everywhere into things like homes and cars, but it makes a lot of sense for USB-C to replace all the other permutations (B, mini, micro, lightning, etc) found on devices.
- philwelch 8y ago(A) problem with USB-C is that devices can selectively support different subsets of its functionality. So instead of having one port to rule them all, you have just as many different ports as before, except they all look the same and take some of the same cables.
- Reason077 8y agoTrue, there is some potential for confusion. But it would be totally cost-prohibitive for every device to support Thunderbolt 3 or for every cable to support 100W power delivery. What is lacking, perhaps, is a standard way to visually identify these capabilities.