I guess you missed where I said: > They needed a solution and what was available was either woefully insufficient or non-existent so they developed a proprieta

I guess you missed where I said: > They needed a solution and what was available was either woefully insufficient or non-existent so they developed a proprietary solution that met their needs. Lightning is 8 years old and shipped in products 2 years before the USB-C specification was even finalized, 4 years before it was standardized. And it wasn't until 2018 that USB-C began being widely adopted. USB-C is still kind of a shit show in terms of compatibility, you can get a charger/cable combination that will charge one device and destroy another. Until that gets ironed out, Apple probably won't be using it in Phones.