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Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday October 13, 2013 @09:13PM from the one-plug-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Nokia's former head designer has called on Apple to work with the broader technology industry and end its policy of having proprietary connectors for its device chargers and accessories. Other experts say Apple cannot continue to go it alone with Lightning Connectors and ignore Micro USB."

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Re:I'm left to wonder, why not? by Sockatume · 2013-10-13 22:13 · Score: 4, Interesting

Unlike the Dock which contained a whole load of dedicated video and audio connectors, the Lightning connector's just an 8-pin connector that gets its video and docking capability from sending a digital stream that's interpreted further down the line. There's no a lot that Lightning can do that microUSB can't do by a similar system such as MHL.

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No kidding!!! What do you say at this point?
Re:Oh, I totally agree... by JeffOwl · 2013-10-13 22:43 · Score: 5, Interesting

"...a fragile mess." What are you people doing to your phones? I've never had a micro USB connector fail, either in the cable or on the phone. Maybe I'm just lucky?