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Re:Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company;... by qq66 on Monday May 05, 2014 @07:16PM (#7701898)
Apple has held onto many proprietary interfaces in the face of much more widely adopted standards, but usually the products have been better off for it. Sure, the one-button mouse is horrendous, but FireWire was better than USB, the Lightning charging port is miles ahead of Micro-USB and other alternatives, and iOS development is not good, but not as bad as Android.
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Re:Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company;... by shmerl on Monday May 05, 2014 @07:39PM (#7702001)
Many things could be better than USB. But U in its name made it the preferred choice. It's like e-mail. Way not perfect, but ubiquitous. Apple not adopting it is clearly anti user in this case.
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Re:Fred Wilson: By 2020 Apple Won’t Be A Top-3 Tech Company;... by qq66 on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @02:49AM (#7708935)
Hmm, I don't think of Apple as anti-user when I plug in my iPad in the dark without having to look at it.
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