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0 pointsrsync9y ago0 comments

I never got to the point you are at because I could never get over the USB jack.

It took 30 fucking years and a lot of blood sweat and tears but finally finally there is a global, universal, cheap and simple charging standard that just works. You can find a USB port anywhere and there are extra cables everywhere and life is just slightly better all around.

Except for Apple.

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cm21879y ago

Well, mini USB, then micro USB, then USB-C, then...

I have to change my cables every 5 years, not exactly "a" global standard.

yoodenvranx9y ago

I have to change my cables every 1-2 years because they will inevitably break with normal usage.

WatchDog9y ago

I must be abnormal, as I have never broken a USB cable.

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ropiku9y ago

Apple already had their standard before there was USB-C. Do you think yet another port migration would be well received ?

rsyncOP9y ago

I'm not talking about USB-C.

I'm talking about the ability to walk off an airplane, in any country in the world, and having forgotten both my charging cable and my charger, I can find a plain old USB port somewhere[1] and someone (possibly my hotel) can hand me a plain old USB cable and I can charge my (device).

[1] On my own laptop, preferably.

metafunctor9y ago

To be honest, if you walk off an airplane, almost anywhere you will be able to buy a missing cable you may have misplaced to charge any popular hardware at most for the price of a lunch or two.

Also, hotels have cables.

Yes, there are parts of the world where the above does not hold, but did you really mean ANY country in the world?

pablasso9y ago

I get where you're going. But I can't just recall any travel or situation where iPhone cables were not available.

At least they succeeded in being popular enough to be practical.

developer29y ago

What the fuck is wrong with people in these comments? You're not the only one ranting about "lost cables". Are there really this many people who are so incompetent in life that they're losing their cables every other week? Feel free to bash the lack of standards; but please stop talking about some theoretical scenario that 99.99% of users never encounter. If you're going to lose your cable, you may as well leave behind your wallet, keys, phone, and the lint that was in your pocket to boot. May as well leave your brain behind on the plane too, if you're so incapable of holding onto your personal property.

dfrey9y ago

You are correct that Lightning predated USB type C, but Lightning is proprietary and thus is not a standard.

eridius9y ago

It certainly is a standard, it's just a proprietary one. The word "standard" does not mean it has to be open and free for anyone to implement.

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kartickv9y ago

Yes, if means less lock-in and more interoperability, like using the same headphones with both Android and iOS.

prodmerc9y ago

Apple - Be exceptional. Or the exception. Whatever, just pay us :D

ubernostrum9y ago

So your phone has a USB type A socket in it? Or are you misrepresenting how you have one eternal ageless never-deprecated never-changing way to connect your phone to things?

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