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Yeah it's a really weird reputation Apple's gotten, but it's completely unfair. In the time I've been using Android smartphones they've switched from micro-USB to USB-C.
Over that same time period, Apple has always used Lightning.
Go back a bit further and Apple's older 30-pin connector comes into play, but that's still just 2 cables in the entire history of smartphones so far. Compare that to the proprietary cables that could often vary by model on the various devices that existed prior to Apple and Android taking over the market and it's a pretty good situation.
iPads have been a little worse, going from 30-pin to lightning and starting to use USB-C in 2018. But still, even that's been very stable since then.
There's plenty of legitimate things to criticise Apple for. Like their opposition to the right to repair. We don't need to be making shit up.
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.
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?
Micro USB did.
And then instead of making a connector like USB-C that everyone could use they made their own proprietary one.
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.
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.