Apple Destroys Lightning
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It's also easy to show it's wrong for anyone with access to the USB working group notes and meetings when it happened. Again, it's been a long time, but my recollection is that Apple didn't even attend the meeting where the connector was first submitted.
As far as I can discern, silence by Google was a condition of Apple adopting it, which already sucks for the people who created it, so let's not go further and totally retcon who created it.
From what I can find, Intel are constantly at the forefront of all mentions when trying to define USB 3 and positioning the USB C connector for it.
This article is far from definitive, but it's the best amalgamation of the bits I could also find separately https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/14/apple-invent-usb-type-c/
If you find the people who did it, and ask them about projects named after mortal kombat characters, they will be happy to tell you the reality of what happened - in part because they've never been allowed to say it publicly :)
Yes. Along with dozens of other things like Apple was selling AirPod at Cost. Or Apple's Genius invented the big.LITTLE core config ( which he did later corrected ).
No.
Anyone who’s worked closely with Apple knows this isn’t how Apple operates.
If you separate out some of the literary flourishes, the article tells you how Apple ended up in this situation.
Besides, using a Mac and AirDrop with or without iCloud doesn’t solve the fundamental issue of getting tens or hundreds of gigabytes of video off a iPhone 13 efficiently.
We see this all the time that different parts of the company are on different schedules. The $329 entry level iPad has some features the mainstream $599 iPad Air doesn’t have, like Center Stage. That will get corrected this spring but it certainly caused some head scratching during the holiday shopping season.
Apple knows they need to solve this for pro users and it’s kind of embarrassing—hence the tone of the article—they haven’t yet.
I really don't see how the article explains how Apple ended up in this situation. Rene seems to have completely forgotten or missed that iPad Pros with lightning were already capable of USB 3 speeds back in 2015. Over 6 years ago. There is NO need for a different connector, just a better controller. And yet they keep not doing it.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/424287/beware-bad-usb-c-cabl...
As a contrived example, is it fine to plug a Thinkpad USB-C charger into a MacBook power supply? Or perhaps a random 5V USB-C charger with a 20V one (yes I am familiar with diodes)? It doesn't make sense obviously, but the plug fits and someone, somewhere with particularly bad cable management will do this. Does the USB-C standard ensure that sparks will never fly or is this responsibility of the end user?
The issue is devices that don't follow the standard, which can indeed be damaged, but what can you do about that.
The reality is that charging at high voltage while being a high speed connection with direct controller on your CPU is problematic if not designed correctly. Aka MacBook Pro 2016.
Charging nowadays requires a high voltage and manufacturers have decided they want to reduce the number of ports, so we have no choice but to have high voltages with a controller in the CPU. An alternative would be to have a charging controller that can be activated and take over, but that's again an issue no matter what standard you're using.