Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tweed Newsgroups: uk.telecom.mobile,comp.mobile.ipad,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Does Apple normally add the UK when the EU forces Apple to care about its customers? Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 06:57:49 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 08:57:49 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="09e2c34650ffa88b940e9eeea78f76b0"; logging-data="2153922"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/HomG0VP0LP9frWLCQbF1m" User-Agent: NewsTap/5.5 (iPad) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f+05ad5NYYlYos7lduEKK5kUabo= sha1:zgvz7uqTSoZ8EvI3awuyx885vbo= Bytes: 2659 Bill Powell wrote: > Apple should be able to make any connector it wants to make. > Even one which is designed specifically to prevent interaction. > > If people would just stick only to Apple products, they'd be fine > as there's no need for interoperability if you buy only Apple product. > > As Tim Cook openly said, "Buy your mom an iPhone" if you want your device > to work with another company's products. It's all Apple around here. > > So it shouldn't matter if nobody else uses Apple's connector. > It's a free and openly competitive world market, isn't it? > Thing is, Apple didn’t even have inter operability between its own products. MacBooks have had USB-C for years (you can’t push enough power through a Lightning connector) So you couldn’t use your Mac charger to charge your Lightning connector iPhone or iPad or ear phones. Now you can. I’d understand reluctance to move to usb-c if there were any significant technical downsides, but I can’t see any. It supports a wider range of charge voltages than Lightning, has a more robust connector, (though some disagree about this) and supports a much wider range of protocols including high speed video. Lightning was a much better technical and mechanical solution than micro USB, but it is now technically and commercially obsolete.