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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThere’s more to it than just the cables, there’s all of the companies that integrate with their phones. There are a ton of accessories for iPhone, and they probably have contractual obligations to maintain compatibility for some amount of time.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
and they all pay for the licensed lightning cable, they would love for nothing more than using USB C instead, apple doesn’t even have to stop producing lightning cables. They just have to stop using them on phones.
This is like the equivalent of not being able to manufacture a car because you slightly changed the design of how the transmission mounts to fix the problem where the transmission fucking grenades itself all because “well maintenance is hard”