Re:Apple can own I/O to own the universe
by madeofpalk on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @10:20AM
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It's always worth nothing that Apple played a significant role in creating USB-C. There have been (unproven) "rumors" that Apple invented USB-C, but otherwise a quarter of the engineers listed on the (initial) USB-C spec working group were Apple engineers.
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It's somewhat the reverse, in a way. Apple, and other companies, clearly would benefit from a once and always connector that far exceeds the demands of whatever USB will need in the future...
... except Lightning is the production version of an early rejected Type C prototype. It was rejected because external facing pins are a common and well known fault point in connector designs.
Those external pins on Lightning plug tabs are the most common failure point of their cables.
Re:Apple can own I/O to own the universe
by inspector-g on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @12:04PM
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> except Lightning is the production version of an early rejected Type C prototype
Do you have a source for this? Curious to read more about it.
Re:Apple can own I/O to own the universe
by Solocomplex on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:08PM
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It's better than a failure of the port on the device.