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From: Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com>
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 19:30:29 -0000 (UTC)
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Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Tweed <usenet.tweed@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 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. 
>> 
>> Agree. And I've said this before on here. 
>> 
>> Apple didn't transition to USB-C from USB-A well or consistently. When Macs
>> lost USB-A ports phones should have gone the same way shortly after. 
>> 
>> What happened instead is that Apple bundled phones with USB-A - lightning
>> charges for years without an ability to charge your phone with your Mac. In
>> all that time they sold billions of phones with USB-A chargers. 
>> 
>> Then, when they transitioned to USB-C, only at one end of the cable, they
>> also removed the charger (apart from ones model). So forced everyone to buy
>> chargers. 
>> 
>>> 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. 
>> 
>> Agree. Lightning should have died 3-4 years ago. 
>> 
>> 
> I wonder if Covid and the semi conductor shortage had anything to do with
> Lightning hanging on longer than it should? All manufacturers in all
> electronics sectors had supply problems, mainly with the dull low value
> devices - such as usb and power supervisory chips. As Apple had a monopoly
> with Lightning in phones perhaps they had fewer problems getting hold of
> these parts. Just speculating. 

I guess that's possible. Not sure why lightning parts would be more
sourceable than the more ubiquitous USB, though?