On: Apple may have to abandon Lightning connector cabl...

[dreamcompiler]

Good. Wireless Qi charging is too slow, and Apple is still being a dongle diva by constantly inventing its own special connectors.

[evilduck → dreamcompiler]

Constantly? Like, twice in twenty years?

[dreamcompiler → evilduck]

I stand by my comment.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CCDDwR2x9k0

[evilduck → dreamcompiler]

So besides lightning and the 40 pin connection, what else in that video is a proprietary Apple connector?

[pwinnski → dreamcompiler]

Apple - 2003: 30-pin connector - 2012: Lightning connector

USB - 1998: A/B - 2000: Mini-A/B - 2007: Micro-A/B - (Skipping some that were not used for phones) - 2014: C

[spaginal → dreamcompiler]

Then stop buying Apple products.

[dreamcompiler → spaginal]

Oh I have. And I had been buying them in large quantities since 1984. But the astonishingly low quality of Apple's hardware and software over the last 5 years has made me stop.