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Moving from 30-pin connector to lighting connector on iphone, Apple reversed the male/female part/pins of connector(cable vs port on phone). Overtime iPhone users experience with intermittent connection/charging isues due to lint/dust getting collected inside female part of lightning port on iPhone, Than, you need to gently clean(tooth pick, force air,etc) the female pins(without damaging) inside port on iphone for better connection to fix the problem. Contrary to lightning, USB-C's female side/pins is on cable side so you can either clean female fins inside like lightning or faster change/use different cable if it gets clogged with lint. Bit, easier to fix problem just using different cable which you can't do on iPhone. But on USB-C if tip of male part on phone get broken than your phone is ruined until you replace the physical port on phone and it is not easy/fun to replace.
So, Apple should stay with lightening until no physical port is needed or if decide to move to USB-C in future than to make sure the male pins tip inside port's housing construction is solid so tip is not broken from the daily multiple usage(charging and earpod) of insertion or somehow make the port easily replaceable on iphone. Bunch of other phone manufacturers are moving/moved to USB-C so we will find within year of usage across the board by millions of users to see if USB-C's physical design/construction(male tip) damages or sustains the daily use of insertion.Macbook/Pro is another example/usecase to prove the long term USB-C's durability.

Hala Lu ya ! Apple will do best to offer great tech at best possible reasonable price it can.

Tell your friends who may consider buying unlocked or locked Galaxy 8 or 8 Plus, to compare Galaxy or any android phones cellular network LTE bands against iPhone 6S/7. It is known that Android phone manufacturers cheat/cripple LTE bands to reduce the cost but users suffer. This is one reason iPhone is called true world phone and most android phones are not. Don't be sucker. Even on their web site under phone spec, they either not list or hide deep and hard to find.

The famous level headed technology reviewer from Re/Code Mr.Walter Mossberg today said on CNBC that this time he would wait to review Galaxy S8 based on past issues with Samsung phones. He said S8 battery is smaller than S7 while pushing more pixels on screen so wait to see real world usage and battery life..

We need to strengthen USA's intelligence safeguards and punish by death(him/her and their family) if anyone from inside leak any intelligence. Today, it may be silly inforamtion that CIA trying to create tools to hack IOS but tomorrow it can leak about the brave intelligence undersover agent's names which can put their life in harms-way, get killed.