Comment by Dylan16807

> lightning is the pcie 8-pin in this comparison: you may not like the technical limitations it imposes, but, it works well enough that you can build products around it. So why impose a change to The Current Thing and do this whole big changeover if it's already working well enough?

That would be valid if everyone was using it.

If all phones had lightning I would be much less inclined to make them change it.

> But that's the hardware that's in people's hands right now.

The hardware that's in people's hands right now is overwhelmingly USB C. That's why the motivation exists to get Apple to be compatible.

> 48V power delivery - it would all be a lot easier and safer

I don't know, that's getting pretty high. Do you then convert directly from 48v to 1.1v or do you need to add a second conversion stage onto GPUs?

Edit: Though given this post, the new PCIe connector seems like an overall good idea, and it's just some adapters that need to be recalled. https://www.igorslab.de/en/adapter-of-the-gray-analyzed-nvid...