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I'm not sure I buy this argument. USB cables are everywhere (and ports are everywhere)... like the macbook. Then again, it'd be more costly to remove USB ports

by ckrailo 14y ago

I'm not sure I buy this argument. USB cables are everywhere (and ports are everywhere)... like the macbook. Then again, it'd be more costly to remove USB ports from a macbook since nobody would buy such a laptop in the current market. But if that were the real reason for this, wouldn't it be better to switch to a small USB form factor like most phone manufacturers? Also 1% seems really high. If it were destroying phones, my random guess is .1% or .01%. Could you explain more your thought process here? Maybe I'd get the argument more. (Also, keep up the good work. Lots of respect.)

saurik 14y ago
My "thought process" is mostly as stated, with the possibly exception of something I found obvious: that the complex Apple-specific connector is often built by third parties in ways that are kind of sketchy and you can feel it scraping along and not quite fitting into the port correctly with some of the cables you might purchase (the car adapter I used to use had this property, as does the multi-way charger I was using for a while). Using a small USB form factor, btw, is totally unacceptable from their perspective, because they use the dock connector for more than syncing: they have a ton of extra pins and extra stuff they wire over the dock: it isn't just a USB->USB adapter for purposes of syncing and charging it, it is an accessory port with included UART. HTC probably had the most workable compromise: a mini-USB with a broken-out corner and some extra contacts.