Comment by xp84

> those who were angry about being “forced” to replace their 30-pin peripherals

> many of these same people would be professing outrage and demanding

As you may have guessed I'm pretty critical of Apple (despite giving them a ton of money) but I'd classify the above critics as idiots (and given the media loves a story like that, a lot of that outrage is entirely made up for clicks). To the extent Apple cares what anyone thinks (and I doubt they do), they surely know that any decision they make will be attacked by this type of knee-jerk silliness.

Media: Apple keeping their proprietary Lightning connector for MFi revenue reasons and because they don't want to be compatible or make it easier to switch to Android.

Also Media: Apple forcing everyone to switch from Lightning to USB to force them to buy all new expensive accessories! Greed!