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by illiarian 1149 days ago
What you mean to say is: USB Power Delivery as a standard didn't even appear until after Lightning was launched. Any fast charging didn't appear until USB-C specs that only became finalized in 2014.

And Lightning has been charging my iPhones pretty fast
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mrguyorama 1148 days ago
There have been many fast charging standards that are available on way cheaper chargers that apple just ignored. It's not that big a deal, but it did force apple consumers to buy expensive "official" chargers to actually charger quickly.
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illiarian 1148 days ago
> There have been many fast charging standards

"Many different standards" means "no standard".

> that apple just ignored.

Apple ignored them because none of them were standards until very, very late

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