<story><title>A Guy Walks into an Apple Store</title><url>https://birchtree.me/blog/a-guy-walks-into-an-apple-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m disappointed Apple hasn&amp;#x27;t dropped Lightning and just made all their devices use standard USB-C. I could see their motivation for developing their own connector when everyone else was using micro-B, which has a number of disadvantages, but now USB-C is used to power virtually every other phone and tablet, and many laptops including Apple&amp;#x27;s own.</text></item><item><author>samatman</author><text>Literally every one of the existing options still works.&lt;p&gt;Ok with charging at 5w? Plug your lightning-to-A cable into the little tiny cube charger they&amp;#x27;ve been selling since forever.&lt;p&gt;Already have a faster USB charger? It works.&lt;p&gt;Ok with Qi at 7W? Works&lt;p&gt;Oh, you want the new shiny MagSafe puck system?&lt;p&gt;Great. Buy it.&lt;p&gt;This analysis completely ignores that the new shiny system is supposed to be a &lt;i&gt;better experience&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s completely additive to what we have now, nothing has been taken away: except the included charger and earphones, neither of which I would want to have.&lt;p&gt;I expect MagSafe will be quite popular. But that&amp;#x27;s because it&amp;#x27;s cool, not because anything about the new generation of phones compels users to buy it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>samatman</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m indifferent.&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, yeah, USB-C works great, and everything else I own takes it.  On the other hand, Lightning also works great, USB-C isn&amp;#x27;t an improvement on the merits, and iPhone users have a bunch of accessories for it.  Like in my car, I have a 12v charger with one USB-A port and a built-in Lightning cable, and I&amp;#x27;d have to either junk it or just ignore the built in cable if they went USB-C.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure the writing is on the wall with MagSafe: Apple intends to ditch the port entirely. That makes me nervous, frankly, and there are people out there who use an SD card reader who would be furious.&lt;p&gt;But I think that future is more likely than one in which Apple ditches the Lightning port for USB-C. We&amp;#x27;ll see.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Guy Walks into an Apple Store</title><url>https://birchtree.me/blog/a-guy-walks-into-an-apple-store/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Zak</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m disappointed Apple hasn&amp;#x27;t dropped Lightning and just made all their devices use standard USB-C. I could see their motivation for developing their own connector when everyone else was using micro-B, which has a number of disadvantages, but now USB-C is used to power virtually every other phone and tablet, and many laptops including Apple&amp;#x27;s own.</text></item><item><author>samatman</author><text>Literally every one of the existing options still works.&lt;p&gt;Ok with charging at 5w? Plug your lightning-to-A cable into the little tiny cube charger they&amp;#x27;ve been selling since forever.&lt;p&gt;Already have a faster USB charger? It works.&lt;p&gt;Ok with Qi at 7W? Works&lt;p&gt;Oh, you want the new shiny MagSafe puck system?&lt;p&gt;Great. Buy it.&lt;p&gt;This analysis completely ignores that the new shiny system is supposed to be a &lt;i&gt;better experience&lt;/i&gt;. It&amp;#x27;s completely additive to what we have now, nothing has been taken away: except the included charger and earphones, neither of which I would want to have.&lt;p&gt;I expect MagSafe will be quite popular. But that&amp;#x27;s because it&amp;#x27;s cool, not because anything about the new generation of phones compels users to buy it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>e40</author><text>Given the amount of discussion USB-C gets here on HN, maybe it&amp;#x27;s not such a clear decision?&lt;p&gt;I think the biggest risk in USB-C, for me, it makes me really nervous when I buy a cable, and even then I&amp;#x27;m not 100% confident.  When I buy a lightning cable, I have no fears.  And they&amp;#x27;re not even more expensive anymore.  Some of those USB-C cables are just as expensive.</text></comment>