[koyote]

> In Apple land, everyone already had a bidirectional, reliable connector

Wait, I thought the Apple 30-pin connector was not reversible?

USB-C has been out for over a decade now. There was only a small window of about two years where iphones had lightning and other phones did not yet have usb-c.

[MBCook]

GP meant Lightning. It was reversible.

You are correct, the dock connector for was not.

And they couldn’t go to USB-C instead of Lightning initially as Lightning came out first.

[llm_nerd]

Samsung released the first USB-C Galaxy S device five years after the iPhone moved to lightning (2012 vs 2017). They had Galaxy A devices on micro USB a year later in 2018.

A couple of devices like the Pixel (4 years after lightning - 2012 vs 2016) got it a bit earlier, but no, it wasn't two years.

The iPhone rocking a massively better connector half a decade earlier than the vast majority of the competition is legitimately a thing.

[koyote]

The Nexus 5x (and all models after that) had a USB-C connector in 2015, so did the OnePlus 2 (and all models after that).

[llm_nerd]

Two devices that sold absolutely minuscule numbers are not remotely relevant to this discussion. For non-Apple smartphone users, the overwhelming majority were rocking the atrocious trash that is micro USB half a decade after the iPhone moved to lightning.