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Here is a photo of Hedy Lamarr. Naked.

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Here is a photo of Phil Zimmerman. Fully clothed.

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Now who wants to argue that there shouldn't be more women in tech?

Here's how Samsung does Online support

Reason for Lightning: see this hideous microUSB 3.0 cable what sort of shitty design is this? I know it's backwards compatible, but the USB standard was not future-proof as one can see from the picture, so it deserves to die.

How many phones or even tablets need more than 400Mbit of bandwidth? Sure it sounds like it's not future-proof if you need to ask that question, but for fucks sake why don't we worry about the actual future and not some techno-utopia where we need phones with connectors fast enough to download a few libraries of congress before we are done with our morning coffee. The Lightning connector is beautifully designed but total overkill for almost every task it will ever be used for.

And while we are on this topic, the "superior" lightning connector's USB profile is... 2.0! So even if you have a "futureproof" lightning-equipped iphone with a fancy fucking $40 cable, you still can't plug it into a computer and get more than a "micro usb's" worth of connectivity out of it. Some future we live in, it's all just marketing bullshit when the rubber meets the road.

Reason for Lightning: see this hideous microUSB 3.0 cable what sort of shitty design is this? I know it's backwards compatible, but the USB standard was not future-proof as one can see from the picture, so it deserves to die.

As you can see from the cable, the backwards compatibility will only work in one direction. Clearly, because of the larger connector, USB 3.0 cables (regular, mini or micro) are not compatible with non-USB 3.0 devices. Newer devices will still work with the older micro-USB cables that don't have the wider connector, but that's as far as "backwards compatibility" goes. The new USB 3.0 connectors are essentially completely different connectors, and ridiculously larger.

Seems to me the EU is being very premature in standardizing on a version of micro-USB that is already obsolete. Surely industry can work together and create a new standard that has all the awesomeness of the Lightning connector and the openness of USB, combined with some well thought out features to make the standard future-resistant for at least a couple of decades.

When the initial rumors of Apple's new connector started appearing I was at one point convinced that Apple was going to do something truly awesome and introduce a contact-only magnetic connector like the MagSafe connector they've been using on laptops for several years. Not only would such a connector completely negate the possibility of damaging your device internally by twisting or yanking on the cable, but it would also make it easy to keep both sides of the connector clean and functioning in dirty environments. It would also be possible to make the device-side connector waterproof so that devices could be charged while they are otherwise sealed and protected in waterproof cases.

Sadly I was mistaken and they introduced yet another insertable connector that just provides an ingress point for moisture and debris and a way to possibly easily damage a device costing hundreds of dollars. And with the incredible hue and cry there has been when they left the 30-pin connector behind you know they'll have to do everything in their power to stick with Lightning as a standard for at least a decade, as they did with the 30-pin. They have no choice but to fight tooth and nail against being forced to switch to some other connector so soon after introducing Lightning.

Bottom line is I love my iPhone's Lightning connection, like most actual users seem to, but neither the Lightning connector nor any current USB connector qualifies to be a standardized, future-resistant, worldwide personal-device connector in my mind. There has to be a better standard that we can come up with.

Reason for Lightning: see this hideous microUSB 3.0 cable what sort of shitty design is this? I know it's backwards compatible, but the USB standard was not future-proof as one can see from the picture, so it deserves to die.

Reason #1 not to use Lightning: None of my non-Apple gadgets will support it (Apple doesn't allow it). That means my Go-Pro camera will be micro-USB, my wireless headphones will be micro-USB, any other phone than Apple in the household will be micro-USB, etc. etc. All of them will interchangeably use same charger and PC-connect cable. It doesn't help if a few Apple gadgets have a prettier plug, it still will not be compatible with anything else.

Reason #2: Built in authorization chip in the cable (!), adding cost, preventing competition.

Reason for Lightning: see this hideous microUSB 3.0 cable what sort of shitty design is this? I know it's backwards compatible, but the USB standard was not future-proof as one can see from the picture, so it deserves to die.

AOKP[1] is based on the CM tree. I wonder if they will still have access to the code. I'm really not in the mood for more corporate interest BS on my device.

[1] http://www.androidbeat.com/2013/05/cyanogenmod-vs-aokp/