sandman619

It would render my phone to being a phone and an alarm clock if there were no data port.

I think most stories like these are written by people ignorant of Apple’s mindset or they are blowing smoke to sell more issues/get clicks.  Apple led USB & wireless adoptions when those new products were ready to hatch. 

Apple’s Lightning & Thunderbolt ports are platform agnostic so all a person needs to do is buy a USB-C to Lightning adapter to fulfill their USC-C dreams.  Apple simply wants to have a thin port that doesn’t get in the way of their designs. This is why the analog mini-phono port was ditched.  Since their ports transmit USB-C at narive speeds the only drawback is the 2 inch adapter like on my headphones.  Apple has plenty of experience developing connection technologies & launching standards such as FireWire.  Problem is that consortiums ruin good products like FireWire which had a faster tech but was uninterested in that direction.  With its own ports Apple can deliver faster data rates with their tech & comparability with any standard at no-speed penalty.  FireWire on my old iPod left USB in the dust for years.  This is why when Apple developed Thunderbolt, they brought in Intel as a partner because Intel will drive implementation once Intel can roll out the fiber optics inside the PC at a cost neutral for other PC/notebook makers.  Apple will undoubtedly have the fiber optics in their Macs years ahead.  

jfanning said:

AppleInsider said:

 (although most Android phones now look exactly like an iPhone, too). The ad's cover image on YouTube clearly presents Schwarzenegger holding an actual Apple device however.

Really Daniel?  Most android phones look like an iPhone, is that because they are rectangle shaped, with rounded corners?

At the time that Apple introduced the iPhone, the flip phone was the popular design, which immediately fell out of favor for the candy bar, a rectangular phone with rounded edges, with a full size screen, edge to edge, which used rounded square app icons, email & Internet surfing capabilities.... well they just looked like the iPhone.  The Android OS which was based on a mobile phone OS that Google had acquired & resembled a typical mobile phone OS was redesigned along with the reference phone to mimic that of the iPhone.  So smartphone designs took on the look & feel of the iPhone.