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It's really weird how folks talk about e-waste and environmental factors, as if a switch to USB-C wouldn't mean three trillion Lightning cables getting yeeted i
by Eric_WVGG 4y ago
It's really weird how folks talk about e-waste and environmental factors, as if a switch to USB-C wouldn't mean three trillion Lightning cables getting yeeted into the ocean… like, I personally am quite over Lightning, but come on, folks
also deeply weird and annoying that the Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse use lightning for charging, that was a dumb call out of the gate
- quixoticelixer- 4y agoIt's not like lightning cables have an infinite lifespan though. And they won't actually be sent into the ocean
- Eric_WVGG 4y agodouble-check the little paper pamphlet that came with your iPhone, it literally says "please drive to the closest ocean — Pacific if you're in Kansas — and throw your lightning cable into the water when it reaches the end of its finite lifespan" in fine print.
- M3L0NM4N 4y agoThat's such a backwards way of thinking about it, e-waste could be cut down so much if people only had one charger for everything. You're overstating the magnitude of a short term side-effect, instead of focusing on the long term benefit.
- arvinsim 4y ago> It's really weird how folks talk about e-waste and environmental factors, as if a switch to USB-C wouldn't mean three trillion Lightning cables getting yeeted into the ocean… like, I personally am quite over Lightning, but come on, folks This argument is bollocks. People won't throw lightning cables if the iPhone 14 had USB-C because their current phones STILL use Lightning. Current phones' ports wouldn't magically become USB-C overnight.