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Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’ (nypost.com)
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Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’::Smart phone fans are griping about Apple's new devices since the arguably anti-climactic announcement of the forthcoming iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus on Tuesday.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

USC-C spec was finalized about two years after they made the switch to Lightning. The first smartphone with USB-C came 6 months after that finalization. Apple wanted to get rid the 30 pin and felt the uncertainty around USB-C timeline was too high, so they rolled their own.

If they switched to USB-C for phones just 2-3 years after Lightning it would’ve been a terrible experience for iPhone users.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember the outrage around moving to lightning. Doing it again so soon after for a connector that’s (slightly) more fragile and provided no real benefit would have seriously hurt sales.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

i just had a memory show up in my facebook timeline with a comparison of the number of ports Apple had used on the iPhone and how many Samsung had used. samsung had used something like a dozen in the same timeframe of about 5 years but everyone was pissed that the 30 pin was going away. and on top of that, lightning was introduced as 'a port for a decade' which, incidentally, it's been in use for... 10 years.