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by salamandersauce 1613 days ago
It isn't? I've never worked with Apple but they are pretty happy to cripple 3rd party smart watches to make their own look better. Or how big of frustrating mess it is to move data on/off an iOS device with iTunes vs. using iCloud. I've had a few friends get frustrated at moving tens of gigs of photos off an iPhone using USB and just give up and get iCloud to do it. It was already a problem for years for consumers even.

I really don't see how the article explains how Apple ended up in this situation. Rene seems to have completely forgotten or missed that iPad Pros with lightning were already capable of USB 3 speeds back in 2015. Over 6 years ago. There is NO need for a different connector, just a better controller. And yet they keep not doing it.