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  • Additionally, USB-C debuted only two years later than lightning, so age is no excuse here.

    but then please also compare 2014 USB-C to Lightning and not 2024 USB-C > youre also not comparing Mini-B (from 1998 with USB 1.1) to USB-A (from 2017 with USB 3.2) you have to stay in the same time period if you wanna make a fair comparison since I am talking about it connector itself.

    just because “it feels better”?

    yes, it fells better because it has way tighter tolerances > USB-C can be everything from the nicest feeling connector if you’re lucky and get the perfect cable+connector to the wabblyest mess that barely holds the cable if you’re unlucky. And it only gets worse over time because the connection of USB-C is purely based on friction (which wears out over time) and lightning uses friction + it “snaps into place” with its grooves on the sides. Another thing I’ve noticed (since I carry around both my private Android phone (with USB-C) and an iPhone for work) is that the lint build up on USB-C is way higher then on lightning and cleaning it is a bit more annoying because of its “weird” choice of design that both the connector and the cable are both male and female (obviously only a problem on phones or other devices you carry around with you)

    Are you aware that lightning is a proprietary connector?

    yes, but that doesn’t mean that I cant believe that its the superior connector (not used USB standard), to give you another example: I believe that Apples HomeKit is currently the best Smart Home standard for an average person (Matter is in theory better but it was more of a paper launch so we will see how many companies actually support it) simply because all devices are required to work without a server or internet connection and before anyone says anything, yes Home Assistant is also great but can require a lot of tinkering + some kind of server (like a raspberry pi) so I would more put it in a enthusiast grade tier and not average consumer.

    So basically you would want every device to use a nonexistent updated lightning

    actually no, the “one connector for everything” dream is great and I would love it to be true but we are at a point (and I don’t see it becoming any better in the future) where yes we have one connector for most things but the cables are such a hot mess where you have no idea if the cable can actually do what you want it to do because USB-C can be everything from USB 2.0 to USB4 v2.0 (without the need to comply with everything that is in the spec), Thunderbolt 4 or even a power only cable without any easy way to differentiate them.










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    The realization is that you can’t really remove the music part because you could just use YouTube instead of YouTube Music to listen to the music ad free > yes in theory it would be possible for YouTube to say “everything that is on YouTube Music will have ads on regular YouTube if you get “Premium Lite”” but that would just be more complicated and people would complain even more


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    11 months ago

    Never claimed it is. All I said is wanting everything for free plays a big part in the shitification of the Internet because companies need to find a way to pay their costs or even make money.


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    11 months ago
    • Do you wanna pay for the platform? > no
    • Do you wanna watch ads instead as a way to pay? > no
    • Do you wanna use the platform? > yes

    Then, find a way to pay for it. People wanting everything for free is the reason for the shitification of the Internet.

    And I know it’s popular on the Internet and especially on lemmy to hate on capitalism, but it would be the same under any other system > someone has to pay for it (people working on it, hardware, …) or it won’t exist