Comment by brightball
2 years ago
This stuff is what worries me about the whole EU standards body issue. I'd rather Apple be able to innovate and create a better connector than locking them into this mismatched and inconsistent reality.
2 years ago
This stuff is what worries me about the whole EU standards body issue. I'd rather Apple be able to innovate and create a better connector than locking them into this mismatched and inconsistent reality.
As shown in TFA, Apple can still design beautiful technology even with the constraints of a standard. You hate inconsistency, you can buy Apple. But now you have the choice to also charge it at your Android-using friends house.
Better is relative. The EU goals is standardisation to reduce e-waste. Unless Apple are going to innovate a way make every phone manufacturer adopt their fancy new connector, it’s never going to “better” than USB-C. If you’re evaluating connectors from the perspective of reducing e-waste.
“We are going to put all of our effort on standardizing cables so when Android users have to throw away their phones every year because they don’t get updates at least they won’t have to throw away the cable”
So your argument is we shouldn’t bother trying to standardise anything, or reduce any e-waste until Android phones start receiving long term updates? That’s an odd hill to want to die on.
Apple created a better connector it's called USB-C, they adopted it among all their other devices aside from the iPhone (Mac and iPad) in fact they were the pioneers in adopting it on computers.
The worst USB-C to C cable is still no worse than the best Lightning cable
Personally I wish that usbc cables were more like lightning cables in terms of form factor (both sides being lightning would have been neat). They fit snugly and it is easier to clean the ports that receive them imo... Anyway thats all in some other timeline >:V
Apple are the ones who decided to wait at least 7 years to adopt USB-C after it was available. If they could have “innovated” - maybe USB 3.0 support could have been added to Lightning? But they showed zero interest in innovating over all that time, so I think that’s fantasy.
The EU wouldn’t have forced their hand if they were innovative instead of being greedy, lazy, and rent-seeking.