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Did they purposefully go out of their way not to copy the Apple Lightning connector? Because this design is just stupid.
by bborud 12y ago
Did they purposefully go out of their way not to copy the Apple Lightning connector? Because this design is just stupid.
- eksith 12y agoPatents etc... They may have other reasons as well, like price of replacing a plug/wire vs. damaged socket. I've broken many a plug by pulling on the wire at an angle due to laziness, but luckily, nothing in the port broke.
- makomk 12y agoApple's Lightning connector isn't capable of most of the things that USB C does. It doesn't support anything faster than USB 2, doesn't even have enough pins to support USB 3 or DisplayPort let alone both at the same time, can only deliver a fraction of the power, etcera. In some ways it was actually less capable than Apple's old 30-pin dock connector.
- yincrash 12y agoWhat's stupid about it, exactly?