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Re:Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years... by sneak on Monday July 01, 2019 @04:10AM (#20323379)
The rumor is that USB-C was an Apple invention, quietly pushed into the USB-IF so that it wouldn't have the Apple stink on it, and so that it would become a global hardware standard in the way an "Apple Thing" never could: power and high speed data, in a convenient and reversible plug.

Now they're on Chromebooks, WinTel machines, and the Raspberry Pi.

If the rumor is true, it was a really smooth move by Apple.

It would be an extremely Apple-esque thing to hack an industry-wide movement just so that your laptop could be charged by any power brick made by any manufacturer at any time (even if your competitors get this functionality too).

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Re:Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years... by izacus on Monday July 01, 2019 @06:19AM (#20323966)
"The rumor" sounds like rather common history rewriting to from Apple fans. Do you have any sources for that rumor?
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Re:Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years... by sneak on Monday July 01, 2019 @11:41PM (#20331944)
John Gruber made the claim.

https://www.macrumors.com/2015/03/13/apple-invents-usb-c/

https://www.cultofmac.com/315989/is-this-proof-that-apple-in...

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/03/14/apple-usbc

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Re:Jony Ive is departing Apple, but he started leaving years... by dannyw on Monday July 01, 2019 @08:19AM (#20324541)
The convergence of USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 (an Apple standard) isn’t an accident, but I doubt Apple covertly pushed it behind the scenes.
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