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> Thunderbolt vs USB. Again whole world vs Apple. WAT. Maybe you mean Lightning vs. USB? Well, it turns out that while a whole committee was designing 15 diff
by dmitriid 4y ago
> Thunderbolt vs USB. Again whole world vs Apple.
WAT.
Maybe you mean Lightning vs. USB? Well, it turns out that while a whole committee was designing 15 different and confusing standards over the past 20 years, Apple designed two, and they work.
Now it's suddenly "Apple vs. the world" because the USB committee managed to spit out a semi-functional spec that ... Apple was the first to actually go full in with their desktop offerings, pissing so many people off.
- kergonath 4y agoApple was involved in Thunderbolt from the beginning (and from all accounts was a major driving force for Thunderbolt in the first place) and is part of the USB-IF. The only time it lagged in adopting a new USB version was because Intel was dragging their feet for USB 3. Some people just cannot understand that they have different strategies for desktops/laptops and mobile phones and go with “Apple walled garden bad”. > Apple was the first to actually go full in with their desktop offerings, pissing so many people off And also more or less designed the connector, apparently.