> They're often quite successful with this, although they recently had to admit defeat with USB-C.
Painting this as an adversarial scenario doesn't really hold up to scrutiny; Apple was heavily involved in the development of USB-C.
Painting this as an adversarial scenario doesn't really hold up to scrutiny; Apple was heavily involved in the development of USB-C.
Companies aren’t cartoon characters that only do good or bad things, and they also aren’t monoliths with a single brain making coherent decisions.
Part of the deal to get them to use the connector was that nobody would say apple wasn't involved.
This actually led to a particular journalist giving them credit for it despite them having nothing to do with it.
They participate now.
Might be, but they really dragged their feet using it for their phones instead of Lightning, and I think I remember Apple saying they couldn't use USB-C and have the phones remain as thin as they wanted them.
But, as soon as regulation appeared that they have to, suddenly it became possible.