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>they just require industry to set aside pettiness and work out a solution.\ The problem isn't "the industry" being petty, it's Apple, and Apple alone. Everyo

>they just require industry to set aside pettiness and work out a solution.\ The problem isn't "the industry" being petty, it's Apple, and Apple alone. Everyone else got over their idiotic pettiness and attempts at proprietary connectors many, many years ago and jumped on the USB bandwagon.

snehk 4y ago
To be fair, they all tried their own crappy adapters that were the same as everything else but simply incompatible due to the design of the thing. Apple's lightning connector was simply better than what others offered. They had a data connector that worked upside down. They solved an annoyance users had, which is why the thing was so popular. It then took other cell phone manufacturers three years to implement that.
- kaba0 4y ago
  Apple also is part of that group and also accepted USB-C. It’s not like their ipads for several years now wouldn’t be using it.
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robin_reala 4y ago
In the phone world, yes, but this legislation doesn’t apply to just phones. The ruling[1] says: The interoperability between radio equipment and accessories such as chargers is hampered as there are different charging interfaces for certain categories or classes of radio equipment that use wired charging such as handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones or headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, earbuds and laptops. It basically applies to anything that is portable (but not so small that it can’t fit a USB-C socket), battery powered, and has some sort of radio in it. For example, this is presumably why the new Kindle now has USB-C.[2] [1] https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10713-2022-INIT/x/pdf https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10713-2022-... [2] https://www.theverge.com/23409106/amazon-kindle-2022-e-reader-review-test-price-specs-features https://www.theverge.com/23409106/amazon-kindle-2022-e-reade...

snehk 4y ago

To be fair, they all tried their own crappy adapters that were the same as everything else but simply incompatible due to the design of the thing. Apple's lightning connector was simply better than what others offered. They had a data connector that worked upside down. They solved an annoyance users had, which is why the thing was so popular. It then took other cell phone manufacturers three years to implement that.

kaba0 4y ago
Apple also is part of that group and also accepted USB-C. It’s not like their ipads for several years now wouldn’t be using it.

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robin_reala 4y ago

In the phone world, yes, but this legislation doesn’t apply to just phones. The ruling[1] says: The interoperability between radio equipment and accessories such as chargers is hampered as there are different charging interfaces for certain categories or classes of radio equipment that use wired charging such as handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones or headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, earbuds and laptops. It basically applies to anything that is portable (but not so small that it can’t fit a USB-C socket), battery powered, and has some sort of radio in it. For example, this is presumably why the new Kindle now has USB-C.[2] [1] https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10713-2022-INIT/x/pdf https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10713-2022-... [2] https://www.theverge.com/23409106/amazon-kindle-2022-e-reader-review-test-price-specs-features https://www.theverge.com/23409106/amazon-kindle-2022-e-reade...