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It's always worth nothing that Apple played a significant role in creating USB-C. There have been (unproven) "rumors" that Apple invented USB-C, but otherwise a quarter of the engineers listed on the (initial) USB-C spec working group were Apple engineers.

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It's somewhat the reverse, in a way. Apple, and other companies, clearly would benefit from a once and always connector that far exceeds the demands of whatever USB will need in the future...

... except Lightning is the production version of an early rejected Type C prototype. It was rejected because external facing pins are a common and well known fault point in connector designs.

Those external pins on Lightning plug tabs are the most common failure point of their cables.

Do you know what the trade offs in terms of cable vs design reliability are for USBC vs Lightning out of interest?

> except Lightning is the production version of an early rejected Type C prototype

Do you have a source for this? Curious to read more about it.

It's better than a failure of the port on the device.

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