[delta_p_delta_x]

> proprietary formats and specifications such as ... DisplayPort

DisplayPort is not proprietary; it is a VESA standard.

> Lightning

If you owned any iPhone between 2012 and the present, you had to use Lightning, without choice. And for some inexplicable reason, Americans love iPhones.

[QuadmasterXLII]

People keep iphones for a long time. My unfair internal impression is that android phones still have micro-usb and allow any app to change your lockscreen to porn ads without identifying _which_ app made the change, because when I switched to iOS that was true, and I’ve only had two iphones so it can’t have been that long. (In reality it’s been eight years)

[happymellon]

> allow any app to change your lockscreen to porn ads

I have never heard of such a thing. Was it a common problem for you?

[QuadmasterXLII]

It was a moment in time

https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/143330/what-is-t... Etc

[orangeboats]

8 years is a long time in tech. Type-C ports are now commonplace in the Android world. The modern Android ecosystem is no longer the chaotic mess we saw during the Android 2.x era -- its permission system is a lot more complete now, and many features are locked down by default unless you explicit grant the applications permissions to use them.

[eertami]

People keep all phones for a really long time. I've never had a phone that I didn't use for 5 years, nor one that ever cost more than $350.