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Bill Powell <bill@anarchists.org> 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.