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I don’t buy iPhones for the cables. I don’t like the needlessly proprietary cable and I actually put that on the list of reasons not to upgrade to a newer iPho

• scarface74 7y ago
  Amazing how free will works isn’t it? You as a competent adult are able to judge products and make decisions about tradeoffs and you didn’t need the government to help you do it. If Apple saw that enough customers switch to Android because of the cable they would change - free markets are amazing.
  • hesarenu 7y ago
    Apple forces everyone to use their own browser engine , their own marketplace no free will there. Competent adult can not judge products on their own, they can only install Apple approved ones!.
    • scarface74 7y ago
      If only people had another choice of mobile phone operating systems....
      • hesarenu 7y ago
        If only competent adult are able to judge products and make decisions about tradeoffs and you didn’t need the government to help you do it would be able to install whatever they want. You can't have it both way dude unless you think Apple is afraid and going to loose money which might bring down the stock value.
        • scarface74 7y ago
          If I buy a game console, I have to choose between what the platform offers and the trade offs. I don’t need the nanny state to tell Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft how to build their platforms. 85% of the world chooses Android. If you want to choose your browser, you are free to choose Android also.
  • Lio 7y ago
    Hang on though, the point is that the market isn’t able to address this issue. There aren’t two platforms with equal privacy available but differing power connectors. I’m forced to prioritise privacy over proprietary connectivity. If all things were equal then I could vote with my wallet and I’m sure the market would fix this... but all things aren’t equal so market isn’t going to solve this problem. In that situation you need an external authority to set a standard.
    • scarface74 7y ago
      Because a government full of people who know nothing about technology must be the right answer. What other areas of the iPhone should the government force Apple to standardize? FaceTime? AirDrop? iOS itself?
      • wsy 7y ago
        Everything where high interoperability is more beneficial for consumers than proprietary solutions by individual companies. As a rule of thumb, everything where standardization brings more benefits to consumers than innovation. Note that as consumer, I can't vote with my money for standardization. I can only vote for one of the proprietary solutions. So if 70% of consumers stick to one option, and 30% stick to the other option (because of other product features), standardization will never happen through market forces, even if 100% of the consumers would want it. It gets even worse when more than 2 options are on the market, and vendors gain an advantage by locking customers in to their proprietary option.
        • scarface74 7y ago
          So it would be more beneficial that Apple is forced to make FaceTime interoperable and all messaging platforms. Should the government enforce that too?
          • Lio 7y ago
            No one other than you has brought that up. It’s perfectly possible to have sensible hardware standards where doing so will not impede the market without insisting that all software be also standardised. For the record I think it would be useful for Apple to have the built in Facetime client be able to communicate with other phone platforms. I don’t think Apple should be compelled to offer that currently.