Comment by simion314
3 years ago
> legally outlaw the Apple standard.
Apple "standards" are DRM proprietary stuff, I would not dare to call it a standard.
3 years ago
> legally outlaw the Apple standard.
Apple "standards" are DRM proprietary stuff, I would not dare to call it a standard.
like HDMI doesn't have DRM, or onerous licensing controlled by a singular, for-profit entity?
oh right "Apple bad, barely even a standard!!!"
Sorry if it sounds frustrated but this just isn't a very interesting tangent, either you or the throwaway coward. It's still a standard even if you don't like the licensing terms or the feature set/implementation/etc. Stop being pedantic, it's not interesting, it's not even technically correct, it's just tedious.
Terminal HN brain in action.
Anyway: much like HDMI, the licensing dollars of hundreds of companies and the worldwide adoption % says that it is a standard, even if a for-profit entity controls it, and even if you don't like the features/licensing. If you're going to be pedantic and tedious, at least be correct, nothing in Webster ever mentions that a standard has to be controlled by an industry body or names USB-IF specifically.
Again though, this is a ridiculous tangent that people are doing to avoid actually addressing the core point about the obvious parallels between USB-C and a new ATX power connector.
Closed "standards" are bad, but in this case even if it were an open standard the industry was forced to chose one of them so every device can use same cables and peripherals. It is not EU fault that the industry except Apple chose USB and is not EU fault that Apple decided to use USB in US.
We're moving away from proprietary "standards" more and more every year, weather Apple likes it or not. If Apple wanted a different outcome, it should have made lightning an open standard an gifted it to USB-IF.