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[-] BornVolcano@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I may be stupid.

But I have no idea how people are comparing "better" or "worse" cables. I always just assumed they were just cables.

Edit: for people downvoting me, I'm not saying they are just cables, I'm just saying I don't know what the difference is, and asking for an explanation. Please calm down.

[-] sebi@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is physical connections between devices. The pins that make electrical contact. There are 24 on UsbC and 8 on lightning making a lot more things possible.

Also there are structural benifits. Lightning connectors are held in by the device which makes replacing the clamp a lot more difficult than just switching the cable like UsbC, where that mechanism is inside the cable.

And last but not least is Usb an open protocol while you would have to pay Apple if you wanted to implement Lightning.

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[-] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

It WAS a good cable about 6 years ago when even flagship phones still used micro USB. I would have killed for lightning on my old android phone. However, usb c just takes the cake, every cake. It has its own problems but the tradeoffs are miniscule compared to lightning.

[-] Ly1999@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Somewhat unpopular opinion: Lightning was by far the better connector.

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[-] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 years ago

I'm pro USB C all the way, but I definitely appreciated the lightning connector. It's smaller, fewer things to go wrong with it, less delicate... so to speak.... at least the female side seems to be from my experience. The male side isn't half bad either, but the cables apple used for their USB to lightning wires was basically trash. Every time I witnessed someone with a bad iPhone charging cable, the connector was generally fine and the wire was torn to shreds.

The biggest weakness of the standard was that it was stuck on USB 2.0. Beyond that it was pretty good.

I still like USB C more, both for speed and for how ubiquitous it is; but, being fair to lightning here, the center area were the pins are is a failure point, one wrong move and it's toast. Granted it's nestled in there pretty good and the chances of that actually happening is pretty small, but lightning doesn't have this issue.

Lightning is far from perfect, but they did a good job.... for the time. Right now the only benefit to lightning is twofold, it's everywhere, and the connectors basically never broke with normal use. At the time micro-B was horribly fragile. C is way better than micro-B was, but I still think that lightning has the crown for durability IMO.

With all that being said, USB C all the things. Lightning was a shining example of a better way, and hopefully we learned from that. I don't know what comes after USB C, but I hope the improvements are significant. It will be a while before C goes anywhere though.

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