It's called being pragmatic
> will have to allow for more flexibility in what apps are allowed to execute
Of course it won't. There will be 1% of apps that do something that HN crowd will perhaps care about.
The rest will be apps that try to circumvent privacy and security, and/or chase their own goal. Note how much speculation there is about Meta going the side-loading route.
That lightning cable on iOS is stupid, it only benefits Apple.
Both changes are more than welcome, although I don't use iPhones (precisely for this reasons - closed ecosystem, lighting)
We both can both underestimate and overestimate the size
> That lightning cable on iOS is stupid, it only benefits
Apple has had exactly two connector types.
USB has 14 connector types. On top of that USB didn't even have a power delivery standard until after Apple shipped lighting, and didn't have things like fast charges etc. until USB-C.
And USB-C is in itself a big mess of a standard where you can't even be sure if a cable support features you need.
So, no. Lightning benefited Apple's customers immensely.
Lightning was introduced in 2012. So you're trying to say that it was competitive for just a year?
Of course that's bullshit.
> High power charging standards were around since 2012 at least.
And those standards (multiple) are? You're probably referring to Power Delivery which was finalised the year Lightning was released? Or the finally upgraded versions of Power Delivery that only appeared with USB-C (that mess of a standard where you don't even know if a cable is capable of doing anything)?