In this edition of TC's Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple's iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California's proposed AV truck ban.
A decade ago, years before USB-C was ready, Apple announced Lightning as their connector for “the next decade.” There’s no need to emphasize government regulation when there’s scant evidence it had any impact at all.
Because another connector has been stubbornly used for years and there’s a whole ecosystem of cables and peripherals made for that, now outdated, connector.
I don’t think anyone can say in good faith this isn’t a pretty big deal.
Because of apple’s size. And because we just witnessed a death of a proprietary connector. A major win for the consumer and for the universtal serial bus projects overall mission.
On a side note. Apple has been part of the usb c project from the beginning and based on some biographies - they worked hard to never release Lightning. But they needed to drop the old 30pin connector and found usb C not ready when they needed it - so they release the lightning port instead. Then stuck to it for obvious profit /ecosystem reasons.
Apple will probably cripple the usb-c interface so that if you buy third part cables they stop working in two weeks just like third party lightning cables do currently.
I’m genuinely not trying to be an apple hater. My family all have iphones and I’m constantly needing to purchase new cables as they constantly stop working. If apple is not causing this to occur via some software lockout then please help me understand why this occurs. It does not occur when I buy third party usbc cables.
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