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> Want to improve it? Contribute to USB, or come up with an entirely new standard that everyone can agree to.

They tried that with Lightning. Micro USB won because it was cheap. Apple are USB-C contributors.

> Enough with the FUD.

Indeed.

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> They tried that with Lightning. Micro USB won because it was cheap.

Lightning was definitely not a new standard everyone can agree to. Apple was not letting anyone else make lightning ports.

> Apple are USB-C contributors.

What do I even say to this. The "contribute to USB" has an implied "and use the port you contributed to". Apple failed the second half of that.

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