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You include the standard port to avoid the tax and let people voluntarily switch to get the benefits. If it's so amazingly good it will eventually become the ne
by Spivak 3y ago
You include the standard port to avoid the tax and let people voluntarily switch to get the benefits. If it's so amazingly good it will eventually become the new standard and you can drop the old port when it becomes uncommon for people to have stuff with only the old port.
- rzl1235 3y ago[dead]
- bzzzt 3y agoYou know you can't just shove an extra port on everything? Besides, you'd have to draw the line somewhere. If every component has to be replaceable and a standard connector lots of (especially) small hardware is impossible to make (think wireless earbuds, smartwatches, fitness trackers) and I don't think you'd get a majority of people that want to return to 2000's style mobile phone bricks.
- RecycledEle 3y ago> I don't think you'd get a majority of people that want to return to 2000's style mobile phone bricks. I love bricks with lots of connectors and replaceable / upgradable parts.