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USB-C only exists because Apple proved to everyone how nice a reversible connector is, and USB caught up years later. Lightning has some other advantages like b
by School-Cotton 4y ago
USB-C only exists because Apple proved to everyone how nice a reversible connector is, and USB caught up years later. Lightning has some other advantages like being thinner and less difficult to break. If Apple caves and moves to USB-C everywhere it’s very unlikely that future innovation in connectors will happen.
- ddoolin 4y agoI'm highly certain that a reversible connector would've come regardless of what Apple did.
- dmitriid 4y agoApple released a reversible connector in 2003: the original 30-pin connector. USB went through mini, and micro, and USB-B, and... I very much doubt the consortium would ever arrive at a reversible connector without Apple (who contributed heavily to USB-C)
- fomine3 4y agoDock wasn't reversible
- moogly 4y agoFairly sure the USB-IF was already working on that. They don't move fast.