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Re:Top Mac app store dev abuses free with in-app purchase fo... by emptyparadise on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:22PM (#31010200)
>The only reason USB-C doesn't just use a Lightning connector is spite. IIRC, Apple offered the USB Forum the Lightning connector patents if they wanted them, but they refused.

I'd love to read more about this, especially since I also heard somebody claim that USB-C was based on an older Apple power socket.

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Re:Top Mac app store dev abuses free with in-app purchase fo... by vxNsr on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @12:47AM (#31011288)
My understanding was some what different and also came from comments made here: apple made both connectors and offered the worse one (type-c) to the USB Forum. Because it was reversible, smaller than usb-A and overall a better design vs usb-A they took it, but lightning is the superior connection.
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Re:Top Mac app store dev abuses free with in-app purchase fo... by dagmx on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:40PM (#31010311)
A few googlers on HN have previously told me that the USB-C connector came out of the Chromebook team
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