It's horses for courses at the end of the day.
I only ever plug in my phone to charge it from a power bank, and for that I prefer lightning. Truth be told I seldom need to plug in anything in these days besides memory sticks, so while USB-C may be faster, that doesn't help me at all. I just want a solid connection for charging. I did use an iPod as an external drive a long time ago, but that was back when they had firewire ports, which were a lot faster than USB.
I also make a comparison to the shitty micro-USB ports that disconnected when faced with an especially loud fart, but for the sake of argument while USB-C isn't exactly new it's still not really widespread so time will tell. I'm not convinced that putting the thin breakable bit on the device side is such a good idea; it seems like it's the more likely end to break.
FWIW lightning was made obsolete because no-one really needed a port for data anymore, not that the protocol itself was too slow. Besides, only phones and tablets ever used it. The dock connector had all those pins because at the time wi-fi was only 11Mbps and portable devices seldom had it anyway. I think Apple stuck with lightning because it was slightly smaller, a lot less complex in terms of pinout and perfectly adequate for what most people used it for.
MagSafe on the other hand, has probably saved my laptop a dozen times over. Apple should never have been able to patent that.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 9 Jun 2022, 0:05,
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