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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is why iMessage is open source and supported on all platforms, right? ;)

They should have switched to USB c years ago, they only did it because the EU forced them

Apple gets far less hate than it deserves. Fucking garbage company

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Did the EU force Apple to switch the iPad to USB-C? For that matter, didn't Apple have like 20 or so engineers on the USB-C spec?

I don't know how much more hate Apple can get, their mere existence enables an entire tech-journalism ecosystem dedicated to laying out their evils and predicting their demise. It's good for the economy!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Interesting perspective. Apple did not roll it out on their phones for reasons of greed like I said. Their team being involved in the spec only makes it more frustrating that they refused to fucking adopt it universally.

I don't know how much more hate Apple can get

I would say I don't know how much corporate cock can be sucked by the public. This is the world's first trillion dollar company for fuck's sake

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As I understand it, Apple was frustrated with micro-USB, pushed the development of C and released Lighting for the meantime.

The fact that after years of USB C on the market, they still needed to be legally forced to use the spec they wanted to happen so badly...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple didn’t make enough off of Lightning for greed to be a factor. Hell the majority of Lightning cables sold were unlicensed knockoffs from Amazon and the grocery checkout aisle.

The reason Apple is so rich is that Apple isn’t really dominant in any of the markets they compete at this point(save for the tablet and watch, and that dominance is basically due to the incompetence of Microsoft(surface sucked and Android makers exited the market)) and Google(wearOS evaporated for like 3 years)).

Apple is rich because aside from a few high profile failures, they sell premium products that are competent in targeted categories, and their competitors sell a wide variety products of varying quality in every market category imaginable. What happens then is if Apple releases a new ithing, you can probably buy it and be good, so one Apple purchase leads to another, and they all sync, so might as well pay for iCloud, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If I knew you IRL after this conversation I would assume that any statement you made was the precise opposite of what is true.

You're also sounding a bit like a shitty LLM that isn't really making sense.