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.
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.