| > You are picking the extremes to show why my analogy isn't good, which is unfair. I'm trying to illustrate why your analogy isn't good. How many phones do you own that are 100 years old? How many of those charge with Micro-USB? How many of them even have connections not designed to be hard-wired? It's unreasonable to point at electrical standards that took decades to reach and have stood for decades and say "look, standards are great" as if that logic is applicable to phones that will be replaced in a few years that are using standards that have existing for less than a decade (Micro-USB) and only a year (Type-C). In the past two decades there have been over a dozen changes to the USB spec and almost a dozen different physical connectors. While consistency is great, standardizing on a bad standard too early isn't a good thing. Would USB-C exist if not for Lightning? > but 220 volt outlets are standardized in the US as well. Kind of. There are both 3-prong (NEMA-10) and 4-prong (NEMA-14) 220 plugs in wide use. There are actually a whole bunch of "standard" connections in lesser use. > The point is because of Apple continuing to "move us forward" we will never have something to standardize around. If the alternative is that we were stuck with Micro-USB for a hundred years, then I'm very happy that Apple "moved us forward". |
Not sure about 100 years old, but I can tell you my past 6 phones have all charged with Micro usb. The Blackberry Storm and the Blackberry Storm 2, a Moto Droid, LG G2, Nexus 4, and my current Samsung phone. I can still use the same charger, both wall and car, I got with my LG, with my current phone.