On 2023-02-12 14:44, Jack wrote:

On 2023-02-12 18:31, Alan Browne wrote:

Here's the business plan for the new company.
We'll come up with a cable interface spec and license it out
for companies to make cheap accessories.
We'll call it "Lightning" and the license will be called "MFi".

Then, when we're the most valuable public company in the world
we'll start making, uhm, I dunno... maybe computers? Cell
phones? Tablets? Just spitballing here, but that could amount
to a nice side hustle.

Making the iPhone required accessories which did not fit anything else is
one of the ways that Apple became the most profitable company in the world.

The iPhone quite easily connected (and still does) to Windows machines precisely because the supplied cable had the USB Type A connector on the
other end. So that's a non issue.

Indeed despite the silly European USB-C edict, hundreds of millions of
USB-C to USB Type A adaptors will be shipped to connect to older
computers. So much for the reduction of e-waste.

By the time USB-C becomes truly ubiquitous, it will be obsolete...

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