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Re:ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets by masklinn on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:31AM (#25583051)
> All these complex theories/complaints about lightning. Giving them the benefit of the doubt, one good reason for not shifting to USB-C is to keep IP ratings high.

Also accessories. Sure there's a sunk costs fallacy component to it, but still: it wasn't that long ago that apple users needed to replace all their ADC accessories with lightning ones.

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Re:ACE: Apple Type-C Port Controller Secrets by afavour on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:58PM (#25584745)
There’s such a long tail of it, too: I still see ADC connectors in hotel room phone docks, etc.
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