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It's still not USB, when it really should have been. There's no excuse for having a proprietary connector, now not even for Apple.
by lucian1900 14y ago
It's still not USB, when it really should have been.
There's no excuse for having a proprietary connector, now not even for Apple.
- gojomo 14y agoCould it have been as thin with USB? Could it have never required fumbling with mismatched-side-rotation in the dark? You might not like the excuses but they exist beyond "no excuse". And the required micro-USB adapter will likely be tiny and cheap: just affix it to the end of your micro-USB cord.
- bunderbunder 14y agoUSB is my least favorite connector, aside from the old iPhone connector. In all its form factors it's universally difficult to get hooked up without physically looking at the plug and the socket, and it seems to break too often. Worse yet, most people I know can barely even tell the different versions apart, and often figure out if a USB cord is compatible with a device by just trying to jam it in and see if it fits. The new lightning connector looks like it offers much better ergonomics and better durability than any of the existing USB plugs. So I'm happy to see connectors going in this direction. Let's see the USB standard copy the idea.
- rys 14y agoUSB isn't good enough to carry all of the data signals out of the device, without abusing it completely. At that point you have a good excuse for not using it.