I understand standards and think many are great.
The lightning cable has whatever Apple wants on the other end.
These apple fanatics are so funny when they keep insisting that their shitty 2010 tech is bleeding edge.
That, or you could accept that USBC is fine and that there is absolutely no needed improvement that cannot be done in the form of USB-C. Slapping magnets on USBC is not prohibited if that's what your heart desires. In the mean time, you'll live with charging your phone with 100W, I promise.
By your own logic, you couldn't oppose the government forcing every GPU to have a VGA port, or every NVMe drive to have a sata port because hey do you also oppose standardizing 240v???
Just slap in a USBC too.
There.
The fact that you see a port simply as way to charge instead of study in usability is why I dismiss this argument.
Apple just blocks to lock you in their ecosystem.
Can I use a USB stick over lighting port? Last time I tried it was quite a hussle.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph95baac91f/io...
It never occurred to me to do that but it's nice to have the option.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&st=...
OK, just buy phones with one port. I think you're just experiencing FOMO because it's possible that you could end up with a port that's not The Best or having to buy a less aesthetic phone.
