Re: Does Apple normally add the UK when the EU forces Apple to care about its customers?

Bill Powell <bill@anarchists.org> wrote:

Apple should be able to make any connector it wants to make.
Even one which is designed specifically to prevent interaction.
 
If people would just stick only to Apple products, they'd be fine
as there's no need for interoperability if you buy only Apple product.
 
As Tim Cook openly said, "Buy your mom an iPhone" if you want your device
to work with another company's products. It's all Apple around here.
 
So it shouldn't matter if nobody else uses Apple's connector.
It's a free and openly competitive world market, isn't it?
 

Thing is, Apple didn’t even have inter operability between its own
products. MacBooks have had USB-C for years (you can’t push enough power
through a Lightning connector) So you couldn’t use your Mac charger to
charge your Lightning connector iPhone or iPad or ear phones. Now you can.
I’d understand reluctance to move to usb-c if there were any significant
technical downsides, but I can’t see any. It supports a wider range of
charge voltages than Lightning, has a more robust connector, (though some
disagree about this) and supports a much wider range of protocols including
high speed video. Lightning was a much better technical and mechanical
solution than micro USB, but it is now technically and commercially
obsolete.