• JWBananas@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    They were keeping their promise of 10 years of Lightning ecosystem support. Dropping the old iPod connector was highly controversial.

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      24 days ago

      Phones used to have a round charger socket, a USB socket that could also be used to charge, plus the headphone socket and SD card slot. I’m sure they could have found room for both USB C and Lightning, with all the other things that were removed.

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      23 days ago

      “We promise to keep increasing our profit by overcharging customers for awful cables they can’t get anywhere else”

      What a dumb promise