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Riegel_Haribo t1_jdqr4fw wrote

Reply to comment by oddmyth in ELI5: Why does Apple have a different charger type for its phone to other manufacturers? by rrfe

Because Apple wanted to consolidate all the connectors into one cheap port, and then make you buy overpriced add-on dongles for features like headphone jacks or on-the-go devices that other phones support natively.

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hemlockone t1_jdqsoed wrote

Have you actually had a phone with micro USB, the 2012 port on virtually all phones? It may not have consolidated everything (yay real 1/8" audio), but it was super fragile and hard to use

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Riegel_Haribo t1_jdqu58t wrote

Of course. Micro USB is designed better vs mini-USB (of prior phones just after proprietary charger connectors), as effort was made to move the side with contacts most likely to be damaged out of the device. And of course USB-C connector solves the age-old complaint of orientation (and USB wasn't as bad as Firewire adopted early by Apple, where a wrong orientation could be forced into the connector to smoke the device).

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hemlockone t1_jdubt8q wrote

True that. Micro USB was leagues beyond what existed before it.

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