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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by hota_mazi on Monday October 23, 2017 @08:01PM (#15538038)
> Apple has a really good track record of dropping things at the right time: floppy, CD-ROM, Flash, etc

They have a good track record of dropping technologies in order to push their own proprietary technology instead. And failing most of the time, resulting in ultimately adopting the standard that everybody else is using.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by matt4077 on Monday October 23, 2017 @10:41PM (#15538807)
Floppy -> CD-ROM

CD-ROM -> Internet/USB stick

Ethernet -> WLAN

Flash -> HTML

etc -> pp

The only proprietary port on today's Macs and iDevices is the lightning connector, which is quite obviously better than the abomination that is microUSB, which the competition uses.

I can't fathom how people can delude themselves into believing such easily disproven myths.

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Re:Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start by kruptos on Tuesday October 24, 2017 @01:36AM (#15539472)
Newest Android phones are using USB C, not microUSB.
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