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It was unearned, but the 30-pin's ecosystem of accessories was so huge it was a pain in the ass to switch away from it, even tough it also was very long in the

It was unearned, but the 30-pin's ecosystem of accessories was so huge it was a pain in the ass to switch away from it, even tough it also was very long in the tooth by then. It's a lot less of an issue now a lot of stuff is wireless (even against one's desire), and USB-C's been there for a decade and has had time for accessories to surface with Android being mostly on there, even if the PC side remains mostly dreary. Plus since Apple has been slowly switching ipads over for a few years now I'd assume even in their galaxy there's a bunch of type C accessories available.

appplication 3y ago
In that sense Apple was a victim of their own success. The iPod (and maybe early iPhones had the 30-pin, I can’t remember) we’re so successful half of the hotels in America outfitted themselves with alarm clocks with the same connectors. 3rd party accessories for it became sort of ubiquitous, but it’s s big wild to think the alternative (should Apple have listened to the complains) would be to just… never improve their connectors? You really can’t please some folks, any change breaks someone’s mojo.
squeaky-clean 3y ago
> but the 30-pin's ecosystem of accessories was so huge it was a pain in the ass to switch away from it It's going to be even worse switching away from USB-C in 2033.