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"Apple was a major contributor to the Type C design" Citation? As far as i know, it was created almost entirely by a team at Google, and the agreement to get
by DannyBee 7y ago
"Apple was a major contributor to the Type C design"
Citation?
As far as i know, it was created almost entirely by a team at Google, and the agreement to get Apple on board was to not publicize this fact. Which is really sad, because then John Gruber then went off and credited their work to Apple without bothering to fact check it.
IIRC, Apple was not even at the USB meeting where it was first presented.
I'm sure post coming on board Apple contributed, but yeah.
(Various xooglers and others have confirmed all this publicly now, AFAIK)
- bigdubs 7y agoOne interesting data point (though I really don't care where this all leads): 18 of the 79 named engineers worked for Apple. https://www.docdroid.net/uf3z/typec.pdf https://www.docdroid.net/uf3z/typec.pdf My sense is the spec was designed by a consortium and no one company owns it, but I would bet Apple did contribute lessons from lightning to it.
- CrowFly 7y agoYou are exactly right. Apple doesn't "invent" everything; only the zealots think that way.
- jacobolus 7y agoWhat I remember reading was that Apple’s engineers did most of the design work on the physical connector itself, and were the ones pushing for it to be reversible, be usable as a laptop charging port, etc.