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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?
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.