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by jdjdjdjdjduuuu 1015 days ago
Apple sucks and tries to not follow standards until it needs to... Thats not conspiracy theories.... Thats just the truth
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yeah, like their proprietary USB connector on iMacs, or their proprietary USB-C connector on Macbooks in 2016, or when they invented Thunderbolt all by themselves, and the time they didn't make Firewire and open standard…

What are you talking about? Proprietary connectors I can think of…

- A bunch of ridiculous digital video ports, necessary because the whole industry couldn't agree on how to move on from VGA.

- The "dock connector" — literally nothing else in the industry, even after its introduction, could meet all the needs of that thing, up until…

- Lightning. USB-C was still years away, and the attempts at small USB were a garbage fire.

At least they are being forced to add USB-C to their iphones