Challenge it where?

Texas State courts?

US Supreme Court?

Good luck

Fair, but most midrange phones have at least USB3 as well, no?

I don't actually know for certain, but I can't imagine why they wouldn't.

Apple literally contributed to the design of USB-C, it's not as if they had no idea it existed or it was some sort of reactionary design in response to Lightning

I once had the opportunity to just sleep as long as I needed ... as in no alarms or anything ... for an extended period of time (a few months).

Yeah yeah, we all lived through the pandemic too, you aren't special :-P

Businesses don't need the working class silly, they take on the burden of employing them out of the goodness of their hearts.

😂

He may have eaten that billionaire, but it was for the good of the people so we're gonna let this one slide

If only they had the foresight to predict the needs of their customers a year or two in the future.

Or maybe they just went with Lightning because they could take a cut of every product using their proprietary connector.

If it’s all about pumping up Lightning, why did the iPad leave it?

Because Lightning is too slow and low-power for the functionality they felt necessary for the iPad.

You can't do real video output over USB2.0, charging current is limited, and you can't effectively use it for data and charging at the same time outside of limited configurations.

Your mistake is overlooking the fact that Lightning is woefully outdated.

iPhones have been able to get away with it this long by doing most everything wirelessly and convincing users like you that it's somehow better to have a slower, less powerful connector on their phone.

They couldn't get away with the same limitations on a tablet.

I guess if a new/better connector comes along we have to wait for the EU to give everyone permission to move the technology forward?

The EU is mandating open standards, not specific open standards.

If a new and better connector comes around they are welcome/encouraged to use it. As long as it's an open standard and not proprietary e-waste generating junk

If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more and we wouldn't be having this discussion

USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

Hey I'm with you, don't really need faster wired data speeds.

But I guess Apple has changed their goals if they are leaving out common functionality available in all other flagship devices simply because it's not strictly necessary 🤷

Could they?

Yeah probably. USB-C connectors are ubiquitous, I'm certain they could acquire the necessary components in short notice if they had to. From my understanding they essentially did just swap the connector and kept the same USB2.0 controller.

Did they?

I doubt it, they had plenty of notice this was coming and were likely already preparing for it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the second USB-C iPhone release gets a modern controller with USB 3.2 or even 4, and Apple talks it up like they have single-handedly made USB-C fast all by theirselves (and imply that other mobile devices haven't had the same for far longer)

as every accessory with a lightning port just became e-waste. I guess Mother Nature didn’t see that.

I think it's interesting that you see this as USB-C's fault.

If Apple had stuck to a standard connector they would have been on usb-c in a year or two anyway and none of that e-waste would exist.

Or if they went back on their word and switched to usb-c from lightning after a couple years, there would also be way less Lightning e-waste. What do you think happens to all those Lightning accessories when someone switches from iPhone to a different device?

Apple's proprietary Lightning connector is responsible for the e-waste, not USB-C or regulators.

These regulations will stop companies like Apple making proprietary connectors purely for profit that generate all the e-waste in the first place.

Regulations didn’t make Apple change. A viable standard that met their requirements did.

I call bullshit.

USB-C has been around and better than Lightning for a long time, they didn't switch the iPhone to it until they were under pressure by regulators to do so.

If your theory were valid they would have switched many years ago.

The blending will continue until morale improves

Ah yeah you are right, it makes me tap my key every time I open the app.

The biometrics seem to only replace the master password.

I do wish it worked more like KeePassXC where the key is only needed to save the database after unlocking and confirming with fingerprint

Always use protection

As of now it looks like the patent office is taking the opinion that if the AI wrote all or most of the work then it's not eligible for copyright.

Because only human authors/artists can obtain a copyright and if the AI wrote it then a human did not.

The courts will have to determine how much of the work needs to be done by a human to consider the AI just a tool used and not the creator.