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Correct, rocket science is easy. Satisfying the needs of a quarter billion customers is hard. Micro-USB is used universally for charging and photo transfer, an
by jpxxx 14y ago
Correct, rocket science is easy. Satisfying the needs of a quarter billion customers is hard.
Micro-USB is used universally for charging and photo transfer, and in some platforms it's used for block-storage and/or file-transfer. On Apple's gear it's just used for the first two. So it's not as valuable for iOS customers.
Furthermore, Apple is in the unique position of also owning a dominant ecosystem of media devices that have nothing to do with USB, micro-USB, or any variant thereof. They have to service -that- platform too.
- ktizo 14y agoApple is in the unique position of also owning a dominant ecosystem of media devices that have nothing to do with USB, micro-USB, or any variant thereof. Umm... globally it doesn't, and most of it's market is outside the US, where it is forced to play ball to a degree by providing converters for those markets. And if you think that consumer electronics companies have it harder than the space industry, then you are completely delusional.