• @itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee
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    3210 months ago

    I think the problem is that between lightning cables and USB-C, one is made by an asshole company who wants you to use it for your phone and literally nothing else, and one is useful for your phone and literally everything else.

    • lol3droflxp
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      2110 months ago

      Funnily enough, Apple co-developed USB, introduced it in their laptops and everyone complained.

    • @BorgDrone
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      610 months ago

      USB-C wasn’t really useful for anything when Lightning was introduced, on account of it not even existing as a spec, let alone actual hardware, until 2 years later.

    • The Cuuuuube
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      210 months ago

      lightning suffered the same fate as FireWire before it: excellent protocol that would have benefited the users with mass adoption, hampered by Apple and their co-developers (in lightning’s case, Intel) charging too steep of licensing fees, rendering them niche