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> In Apple land, everyone already had a bidirectional, reliable connector Wait, I thought the Apple 30-pin connector was not reversible? USB-C has been out fo
by koyote 11mo ago
> In Apple land, everyone already had a bidirectional, reliable connector
Wait, I thought the Apple 30-pin connector was not reversible?
USB-C has been out for over a decade now. There was only a small window of about two years where iphones had lightning and other phones did not yet have usb-c.
- MBCook 11mo agoGP meant Lightning. It was reversible. You are correct, the dock connector for was not. And they couldn’t go to USB-C instead of Lightning initially as Lightning came out first.
- llm_nerd 11mo agoSamsung released the first USB-C Galaxy S device five years after the iPhone moved to lightning (2012 vs 2017). They had Galaxy A devices on micro USB a year later in 2018. A couple of devices like the Pixel (4 years after lightning - 2012 vs 2016) got it a bit earlier, but no, it wasn't two years. The iPhone rocking a massively better connector half a decade earlier than the vast majority of the competition is legitimately a thing.
- koyote 11mo agoThe Nexus 5x (and all models after that) had a USB-C connector in 2015, so did the OnePlus 2 (and all models after that).
- llm_nerd 11mo agoTwo devices that sold absolutely minuscule numbers are not remotely relevant to this discussion. For non-Apple smartphone users, the overwhelming majority were rocking the atrocious trash that is micro USB half a decade after the iPhone moved to lightning.