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Lightning is already better than USB C, and yet a new law has been passed banning it.
by School-Cotton 2y ago
Lightning is already better than USB C, and yet a new law has been passed banning it.
- Qwertious 2y agoWhat makes it better? Last I checked, the specs were objectively worse.
- Timon3 2y agoIt's entirely legal to add a Lightning port to a device. Why do you think that was "banned"?
- bmicraft 2y agoLightning is worse to the point where it isn't even funny - 480Mb/s vs 120Gb/s data transfer - 9V? vs 48V - 2.4A? vs 5A - resulting in 18W vs 240W - proprietary vs open. Youre calling the connector supporting 13.3x the power and 250x data transfer while being an open standard and almost the same size "worse".
- ceejayoz 2y agoFor definitions of "better" that don't consider its being proprietary, perhaps.
- School-Cotton 2y agoYes, indeed, some things about it are better and some worse. Which means it’s good for consumers to have a choice, and more importantly, for companies with a track record of good taste in designing high-quality smartphones to have a free hand. I trust Apple to make decisions that lead to a phone I enjoy using a lot more than I trust the EU regulatory bureaucracy to do so.
- kelnos 2y agoConsumers don't have a choice, though. Up until recently, if you wanted an iPhone, you get Lightning, and that's it. That's great for you, since you believe it's the best cable/connector for you. But if someone wanted something different, they had no choice, unless they wanted a different kind of smartphone. And I don't think someone is going to make an iPhone -> Android switch simply because of the cable. That's a bit absurd.