stonedemoman @ stonedemoman @lemmy.world

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Lightning cables are notorious for breaking. https://you-well.co.uk/why-apple-cables-break-so-easily-what-to-do/

So what is there left to say about it...that you don't have to look at the port before plugging a lightning cable in? Is that your justification for saying the USB standard sucked?

Most USB-C cables today are usb 2.0 still anyway so they have the same spec as Lightning.

Modern PCs have 3.0 ports. Androids have 3.0 ports. 3.0 cables are available at any online store. What the actual fuck are you talking about?

What the fuck are you talking about? Lightning cable specs were identical to micro USB.

I still have to disagree. There was no reason for them to develop lightning in the first place. It has 0 advantages over technology already available at the time, and their adapters use the technology they're trying to upsell anyways- USB.

As for the last subjective part of your statement: "The Apple Community forums are full of people posting stories about their broken cables, and it appears to be one of the most common issues that Apple users are facing."

Edit: I wish I could find a conclusive source for lightning vs micro-usb charging speed in 2012, it has proven difficult. This article suggests an extremely negligible 0.3A difference that effectively did nothing because all phone batteries at the time had a 1A charging maximum https://www.gearmo.com/things-to-know-about-lightning-cables/

Apple developed lightning. It had the same transfer rate as USB 2.0 which had been out for over a decade. It wasn't about being "stubborn", it was about being proprietary.

What's that Apple?

Bark bark bark

You pushed USBC down the well?

Sure, but my point is that capitalism may as well be George of the jungle with everything it does to trade our future for revenue growth.

Yes and no. Yes by the time it would likely be detected on a collision course with Earth, at present, even the greatest minds can't theorize a method to neutralize an asteroid => 5km in diameter that doesn't cause an extinction event with the technology available to us right now.

However, if it were detected soon enough there may be more tenable options for preventing an impact event that are not futile. The problem is we don't have nearly enough resources monitoring deep space for our inevitable destruction and with a lot of our space tech now being privatized in the US it will be more difficult because there's no profit incentive to being prepared for our doom. At least now that NASA is active again there will be an obvious taxpayer incentive to literally preventing our own annihilation...lol

Edit to add article about early detection: https://www.planetary.org/defending-the-earth-from-impacts#:~:text=We%20can%20stop%20asteroids%20from,tends%20to%20focus%20on%20asteroids.

You're a good human. I don't get to say this enough, please never change.

There's nothing to discuss. You think that being openly antagonistic about the subject of a sub doesn't warrant rebuke. It's not a rational position.

But I understand what you are saying. You think downvotes should be used to express disagreement, just like upvotes are used to express agreement.

Never once said or implied this.

Then you're completely irrational, and there's really nothing else to say.

I asked what you would expect.

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If you went over to the /funny sub and complained about the person in the post being funny what kind of a response would you expect?

Samsung has already surpassed apple in hardware. We're at the point where equivalent Samsung's multi-core performance is the same, the 25% faster iGPU carries the single-core performance way beyond what the iPhone can do, and they ship with 25%+ more RAM.

I'm hoping more people start to realize that healthy market competition is a good thing for Apple, it has already changed many of their anti-consumer practices in the past.

I agree with the first half of your statement completely, but as for killing it outright I would think turning it over to FOSS developers would be a less incendiary solution. As many people are saying, it hardly competes with other software that is already available.

I can see truth to either position presented in these comments, but I don't like being a fence sitter. That being said, I would think making it available but not mandatory would satisfy both opinions, right? Making it unavailable altogether is a move that seems to have an ulterior motive.

That only makes him half right. I don't know how I could lower my expectations any more than they already have been and I'm already miserable.

Sounds like a book they might have to take off the fiction shelf in the future lol

He's both wrong and an asshole. "Shifting expectations" to something more sustainable would have to mean that there was a sustainable option to begin with.