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Comment by virgil_disgr4ce

2 days ago

> Apple is always behind on industry trends

Huh, I always thought it was the other way around (whether people liked it or not): ditching floppy disks, ditching cdroms, prioritizing BT over wired earphones, etc. I am glad, though, that they were forced to stick with USB-C if I'm not mistaken.

This is very much what apple wants you to believe; they have very good PR.

In actual fact, though, apple is a very effective fifth or sixth mover, and has been for a very long time. They watch everyone else fuck it up and get it wrong a bunch of times, and then throw scads of cash at threading the needle.

> prioritizing BT over wired earphones

Bluetooth sucks, needing to charge headphones sucks. I'm still bitter :p

> I am glad, though, that they were forced to stick with USB-C if I'm not mistaken.

Now I have a boatload of apple chargers which will all be made into landfill for the good of the planet when i next upgrade my phone. Thank you so much.

  • Apple went USB-C on chargers starting in March 2016 (with USB-C to lightning cables on the iPad Pro). They started shipping them with phones that fall.

    USB-A chargers are so brutally slow, but you can use a USB-A to C cable if you really want to spend 3+ hours charging a modern phone.

    The switch prompted cables to go into the landfill. The USB-A chargers should have been there half a decade ago.

  • other people have a load of USB-C charging cables and are frustrated with having to buy Lightning ones and clutter their bags with more wires than necessary.

    although Lightning was better-designed for being routinely used (pins on the outside of the wire end rather than inside the device, easy to clean and no protruding pieces in the device to damage/snap off), and the ideal scenario would have been making it an open standard

    • It's short term annoyance for a long term greater good. I'm not oblivious - but of course the impact on me is simply negative (and I'm not going to leave the walled garden anyway so what were we ever achieving really)

  • Oddly, Apple has gotten a lot of criticism for not including chargers be default with their phones for this specific reason.