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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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