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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by h0l0cube on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:37AM (#34104716)
> One recent example is the mandatory use of USB-C ports for wired charging by 2024, in order to reduce electrical waste by allowing the same chargers to be used for all small consumer electronics devices. This comes into force in 2024, and Apple is expected to comply a year ahead of time by swapping out the Lightning port on iPhones for USB-C as of next year’s iPhone 15.

Real sad about this. I’ve had a lot of Android and iOS phones, and by comparison to USB-C, the Lightning connector is more secure and gives a nice tactile click when it’s inserted fully.

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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by xdfgh1112 on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:19AM (#34105457)
It's more important that everyone uses the same thing than that it is the best thing.
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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by baeaz on Friday December 23, 2022 @08:48AM (#34105733)
I suppose you are being ironic because that sounds quite close to...
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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by weard_beard on Friday December 23, 2022 @04:45PM (#34110950)
A healthy regulatory environment in which consumers and business make compromises and have rights... I know. Scary.
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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by h0l0cube on Friday December 23, 2022 @07:34PM (#34112446)
If Apple open-sourced their connectors and involved other manufacturers and stake-holders, we might have had both. But the extra profits from accessories was obviously too hard to ignore.

That said, lightning is probably more complicated and expensive to manufacture vs USB-C, and then they would have had to either compete or compromise with the USB Implementers Forum[0] instead of creating something in their vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_Implementers_Forum

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Re:Battery replacement must be 'easily' achieved by consumer... by tpxl on Friday December 23, 2022 @03:06PM (#34110040)
They could have both ports if they wanted to.
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