auxio

Calvinator said:

Object lesson: If you show a little backbone, cancel culture is toothless. As is the inane agenda of the woke.

Object lesson: it's all about eyeballs and money. Inflammatory language and reaction/division generating topics are latest round of bread and circuses.

sflocal said:

Xed said:

That's not entirely true. Huawei and Samsung can do it... after they get ahold of Apple's designs and tech specs.

If there's one certainty in life is that iKnockoff companies like Samsung, Xiaomi, and Huawei bought the VisionPro and reverse-engineering it.  Without Apple's top-quality software to go with it, they will fail.

Software is just as easy (if not easier) to reverse engineer/clone as hardware. And lawsuits tend to favour the cloners

Really makes me wonder who's funding them. To generate this kind of media hype and political interest in something so insignificant reeks of well-connected investors.

How about we investigate why tech companies which truly innovate and create new products/services that are of benefit to people can't generate as much interest as a company which reverse engineers and clones an existing product?

mikethemartian said:

auxio said:

darkvader said:

It's already been shown that USB C will work in the older iPhones. 

Apple should get their act together.

Unbelievable. If they care so much about it, why didn't governments step in when there were a ridiculous number of different USB-A/B connectors for different devices (which are now clogging landfills)?



That's the very reason why Apple chose to go with Lightning instead of USB in the first place. And boy did people complain about the switch from Dock to Lighting at the time! Now suddenly everyone is fine with buying all new USB-C accessories because Android users and governments are cheerleading USB-C. Gimme a break!

Wasn’t Apple the early driving force for USB-C when they adopted it as the exclusive port on their laptops?

I've heard rumours that they donated the spec for USB-C, which was created around the same time as Lightning. However, they've tended to prefer Thunderbolt over vanilla  USB-C, which is a bit of a mess with all the different power specifications and difficulty figuring out what can power what (as @tmay said). At least with USB-A/B, you had different connectors for different amounts of power delivery.

darkvader said:

It's already been shown that USB C will work in the older iPhones. 

Apple should get their act together.

Unbelievable. If they care so much about it, why didn't governments step in when there were a ridiculous number of different USB-A/B connectors for different devices (which are now clogging landfills)?



That's the very reason why Apple chose to go with Lightning instead of USB in the first place. And boy did people complain about the switch from Dock to Lighting at the time! Now suddenly everyone is fine with buying all new USB-C accessories because Android users and governments are cheerleading USB-C. Gimme a break!