Lol what? Android used micro USB all across the board on flagships. They then went straight to usb-c.

Well that and the made for iPhone program made them apparently 5 billion a year on the lightning cable alone. That’s not just first party. That’s also third party connectors.

That cable had one awesome feature.

You could just plug in a micro cable and get a charge, so old cables in the car or at the office worked fine (well...as fine as Micro-USB ever worked), just more slowly

Once USB became the standard their was no real reason to hold onto lightning other than it being proprietary and them wanting to hand hold their users

Well if the lockout chip rumors are true, they've basically just made Lighting 2, Electric Boogaloo that just happens to be shaped like USB-C but is incompatible with all non-Apple approved connectors.

Once USB became the standard their was no real reason to hold onto lightning other than it being proprietary and them wanting to hand hold their users

Other than the fact that they promised when they switched to lightning they wouldn’t change connectors again for a decade.

It was never a good cable. Only one reason is needed to prove it: it was not standardized.

I believe that is USB 3.0 Micro B.

The reason to hold onto it after USB-C was the literally millions of devices that had been released at the time that used it. There’s a reason people made a stink about moving away from the 30-pin despite Lightning being objectively better. It’s the same situation here.

At one point, after normal C came out, I gave up and threw out all the stuff I had that took the giant C connector. What an abomination.

That is for external hard drives, the same ones that plug into Macs......