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iPhone 15 buyers will be reminded Lightning cables are now landfill (9to5mac.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Leaker yeux1122 says that Apple Store staff have been told to make sure iPhone 15 buyers know about the change...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two years is like no time in the land of technology standards. Apple did not know whats going to happen in 2 years? Come on!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They weren’t going to keep a huge 30 pin connector for two extra iPhone models or spend two years on microusb just to quickly switch to usb-c. And I think they went with the 40-pin over micro-usb as they already had a base of consumers with those cables from the success of iPods. If Wikipedia is correct micro usb was only announced six months prior to the original iPhone.