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Man, lightning is FAR better than the fragile micro-USB. I’ve had to repair microUSB ports multiple times.

From the perspective of a free and non-monopolistic market, anything from the USB consortium is massively better than an expensive proprietary standard controlled by a single vendor. Technical superiority is not the point.

I would say it’s easily possible to pick a standard that is so subpar compared to a proprietary one that it’s worse for the consumer.

A solution would be to just require any port used to be freely available and open. Require Apple to open the lightning standard and make IP related to it unenforceable.

micro usb does kind of suck, but it's vastly better than every phone having a different proprietary charger like it was before smartphones

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