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I'll bite. What's wrong with the connector?

• collyw 13y ago
  Its non standard.
  • jstsch 13y ago
    It's also the nicest cable out there. It really is a pleasure to use.
    • thedrbrian 13y ago
      And it'll probably fit all your iOS devices for the next 8 years
  • DanBC 13y ago
    It is standard. It's just a locked standard that other people can't use without permission. Are there flaws with the connector? Mag-Safe is a nice idea, but poorly executed. Everyone knows that cables have a significant failure point at the place where wires are soldered to pins, so it's disappointing when a company with excellence in design and attention to detail makes a connector that fails so often at that same place.
    • collyw 13y ago
      > It's just a locked standard that other people can't use without permission. You could describe anything non standard and proprietary in that way.
      • jpttsn 13y ago
        I'd say something that uses a USB connector but violates the standard is an example of non-standard. A Lightning plug that doesn't work according to spec might also be non-standard. Lightning is probably standardized by some reasonable definition of "standardized." It's proprietary, it's not an open standard, but it's a standard. All this is splitting hairs. The criticism against lightning doesn't depend on the distinction non-standard v. not-an-open-standard.
  • mikhailt 13y ago
    How is that a negative? It really isn't and also, it still uses the standard USB connector at one end. It's the de-facto standard for all recent iOS devices and upcoming devices for the next 5 years, and a lot of people love the reversible connector. The only ones not liking it are the ones that invested a lot in the 30-pin iOS accessories. Just as the 30-pin connector has been the de-facto standard the first several years for iOS devices and it wasn't a standard either.
  • jpttsn 13y ago
    The alluded-to scandal is that devices shipped with a not-open-standard connector?