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 ligh

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.