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Man, lightning is FAR better than the fragile micro-USB. I’ve had to repair microUSB ports multiple times.
by Robotbeat 5y ago
Man, lightning is FAR better than the fragile micro-USB. I’ve had to repair microUSB ports multiple times.
- toyg 5y agoFrom the perspective of a free and non-monopolistic market, anything from the USB consortium is massively better than an expensive proprietary standard controlled by a single vendor. Technical superiority is not the point.
- Robotbeat 5y agoI would say it’s easily possible to pick a standard that is so subpar compared to a proprietary one that it’s worse for the consumer. A solution would be to just require any port used to be freely available and open. Require Apple to open the lightning standard and make IP related to it unenforceable.
- toyg 5y agoSo you are a communist thieve of IP !!11!! Who will ever design a plug again, if it can be stolen from them by the government?!?!? /s Honestly, this is the result of dialogue between consumers, authorities, and manufacturers, including Apple. It tries to do the right thing under the circumstances. Apple could have avoided this sort of thing entirely if they were only a bit less greedy than they are.
- galgalesh 5y ago> So you are a communist thieve of IP !!11!! Who will ever design a plug again, if it can be stolen from them by the government?!?!? /s "jokes" like that are counter-productive to a good discussion. HN is not a place for such comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- asddubs 5y agomicro usb does kind of suck, but it's vastly better than every phone having a different proprietary charger like it was before smartphones