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Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
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[–] fulg 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, USB-C didn’t exist when Lightning was introduced, and it was vastly superior to Micro-USB.

It doesn’t really have any reason to exist now…

Agreed with your other points though!

I have an old iPad that I try to reuse for another purpose and all the locks to stop me to keep using it make it such a pain in the butt, when the alternative is simply to enable developer mode on an Android tablet.

Thankfully I remembered when buying a laptop and skipped the very enticing M-series hardware, because in 5-7 years that thing is a brick destined for the landfill.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, USB-C didn’t exist when Lightning was introduced

Hmm, I wonder why that was?

Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector, created and designed by Apple Inc. It was introduced on September 12, 2012

Design for the USB-C connector was initially developed in 2012 by Apple Inc. and Intel.

So Apple helped develop USB-C but failed to integrate it into their products for a decade. Now, why would they do that?

Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_(connector)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C

[–] BURN 2 points 10 months ago

Because it’s not a superior connector. Lightning is better as a purely charging port. It’s less fragile and doesn’t have a million competing implementations. One of the most frustrating things about USB-C is you can’t be sure if a cable is actually going to work.

[–] wikibot 1 points 10 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Lightning is a proprietary computer bus and power connector, created and designed by Apple Inc. It was introduced on September 12, 2012, in conjunction with the iPhone 5, to replace its predecessor, the 30-pin dock connector. The Lightning connector is used to connect Apple mobile devices like iPhones, iPads, and iPods to host computers, external monitors, cameras, USB battery chargers, and other peripherals. Using 8 pins instead of 30, Lightning is much smaller than its predecessor. The Lightning connector is reversible.

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