I really don’t think the lightning connector compares to cell phone company bullshit.
The lightning connector was around for ~10 years and came out two years before USB-C was finalized.
People bitch about switching cables. Making people switch to usb c two years after they just switched to lightning woulda been bullshit. A ~10 year life for lighting and the cables/accessories for your phones is reasonable.
And like you pointed out, their adoption of USB-C did not take ~10 years across their complete product line.
This is nothing like the bullshit cell companies and ISPs have pulled. People just like to bitch about it.
Apple made a promise to keep the lighting connector for 10years because people were really pissed about the change to lighting. The big iPod connector was used on lots of speakers, before Bluetooth displaced that use case. Changing that connector caused more expensive devices than chargers to become obsolete.
I really don’t think the lightning connector compares to cell phone company bullshit.
The lightning connector was around for ~10 years and came out two years before USB-C was finalized.
People bitch about switching cables. Making people switch to usb c two years after they just switched to lightning woulda been bullshit. A ~10 year life for lighting and the cables/accessories for your phones is reasonable.
And like you pointed out, their adoption of USB-C did not take ~10 years across their complete product line.
This is nothing like the bullshit cell companies and ISPs have pulled. People just like to bitch about it.
Apple made a promise to keep the lighting connector for 10years because people were really pissed about the change to lighting. The big iPod connector was used on lots of speakers, before Bluetooth displaced that use case. Changing that connector caused more expensive devices than chargers to become obsolete.