• @[email protected]
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    61 year ago

    If every cell phone brand acted like Apple we would have like thirty different proprietary chargers.

    We shouldn’t give them a pass just because they’re the only ones brazen enough to be stupid.

    • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble
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      61 year ago

      USB C didn’t exist when Apple made the lightning connector.

      Are they idiots, or are they innovators and the rest are just trying to catch up?

      • @Afiefh
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        51 year ago

        USB C didn’t exist, but it was being developed, and apple was on the USB-IF forum which developed it. So literally part of apple was developing USB-C while another part decided “nah, we will make our own” and of course it takes less time to make your own than to make something everyone agrees on.

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        Micro USB did.

        And then instead of making a connector like USB-C that everyone could use they made their own proprietary one.

        • @money_loo
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          51 year ago

          Micro usb sucked.

          It was weird how you’d go to plug it in in the darkness of night, and it wouldn’t fit, so you’d rotate it, but inexplicably it still wouldn’t fit, so you rotate it again….and now it fits?!?

          No thank you, I don’t like cables that break the fabric of space and time and betray reality itself.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Micro-usb is just about the most garbage connector in the last 30 years. I’d damn near rather Apple have actually sent me a breadboard and some leads than have that connector.

    • @Bytemeister
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      11 year ago

      I remember when it used to be that way. Every damn brand had a slightly different size barrel jack for charging.

    • Hydroel
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      11 year ago

      It used to be the case, just like it was for laptops until very recently.