> you can buy a USB cable or adapter to charge any phone in the world at any gas station, or corner convince store.
And that's exactly because of the first round of EU standardisation. The gas station now has to stock only USB and Apple.
If we still had different cables for every single brand of phone, there's no way you'd be able to get them all at most, if at any, gas stations.
I recently had to get a new USB-c to minijack cable. I had to go through four stores, each stocking just lightning to minijack cables, before I found one I could buy. If Apple changed to USB-C that wouldn't have happened.
Sounds like every other phone should actually switch to lightning to solve your mini jack issue. The prevalence of iPhone-ready cables proves that the ubiquity of iPhone cables is adequate- maybe even better than USB C in some markets.
>And that's exactly because of the first round of EU standardisation. The gas station now has to stock only USB and Apple.
Um... No. It has nothing to do with that EU standardisation. The USB converged on all Android SmartPhone was because it was cheap, and it transfer Data fairly fast. Which was the De-Facto Standard on PC.
And that's exactly because of the first round of EU standardisation. The gas station now has to stock only USB and Apple.
If we still had different cables for every single brand of phone, there's no way you'd be able to get them all at most, if at any, gas stations.
I recently had to get a new USB-c to minijack cable. I had to go through four stores, each stocking just lightning to minijack cables, before I found one I could buy. If Apple changed to USB-C that wouldn't have happened.