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   1. remove ability for people to use a cable to transfer photos
   2. force everyone to upload pics to icloud
   3. ????
   4. profit!

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> remove ability for people to use a cable to transfer photos

Where did Apple do that? They just made you need an adapter to connect an iPhone to your MacBook.

You can transfer photos between iOS and MacOS wirelessly via AirDrop.

Airdrop is also a win for apple. Or do you think other device manufacturers can add that simple service over wifi and the airdrop logo for free?

Isnt the article saying thats not even for sale yet?

No. They're saying there's no USB-C to Lightning cable. But that's not the only way you could connect it.

Or:

1. Make awesome products 2. Profit

And if G or MS pulled the same, everyone would be yelling about antitrust...

You mean like how Google doesn't support MicroSD expansion in their Nexus devices so you have to store all of your media in the cloud, probably with Google's services?

Exactly!

2015, the year the world became so bad, microsoft doesn't even register on the radar anymore.

This is nothing to do with antitrust. This is not Apple abusing a monopoly to enter another market.

lol. indeed!

but since it is apple, we get downvotes.

enjoy!

(btw, search online for the time --2007?-- that nokia forced the whole industry to microUSB, that every single phone uses nowadays, as the standard charger plug by being the first to mass adopt it. everyone cried charger monoply)

I believe that was an EU law, not people chasing Nokia compatibility.

Thank goodness not "every single phone uses" the galactically stupid MicroUSB.

Yeah, 30 pin was much better option at the time.... btw, nokia moved away from a connector exactly like the 30pin one

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