> The fact is Lightning is so widely used in practice that force deprecating it would drive an awful lot of kit into land fills. An awful lot of kit is already

> The fact is Lightning is so widely used in practice that force deprecating it would drive an awful lot of kit into land fills. An awful lot of kit is already going to landfills due to being rendered useless for depending on non-standard components to work. Personally I had to throw out a couple of phones because their chargers stopped working. Also, it's not as if lightning-to-USB-C adapters are unheard of. To top things off, even if we somehow assume that USB-C is unable to meet anyone's needs in a few years, and in the process ignore the fact that USB-A has been meeting all needs for some decades now, why would we jump to the conclusion that whatever port format comes next it will be technically impossible to get it to work with USB-C, or offer it in parallel with USB-C?