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by raverbashing 540 days ago
Yes because the pre-usb charging world was so great and innovative /s

Hey remember when the Motorola Razr wouldn't charge on a regular USB port unless you had a specific driver (or had to use the actual charger?). Amazing innovation
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oloila 540 days ago
Yes, all the innovations of today are the result of that wild world of that era. Before you become mature, you must have problems of growing up

No one regulated the number of mobile operating systems, and there were really many of them, even before the era of smartphones. Now there are 2 main ones and a couple of outsiders, all the rest died in the competitive struggle

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raverbashing 539 days ago
Except most of that "innovation" didn't move to sane connectors by themselves, it was due to exactly the same pressure from the EU, that was beginning to propose such regulation

The only manufacturer that didn't do anything about it was Apple

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