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| PlainName:
--- Quote ---So vote with your money and buy a TomTom! --- End quote --- Never. I'd rather stir boiling fat with my .. appendage. TomTom are shysters. I've purchased their phone app and not been able to use it - complete waste of money. My partner has a satnav with lifetime updates that is obsolete and not updated. From a moral viewpoint, they were so bad at abusing GPL'd code that they got sued and had to make a significant (monetary) contribution to the cause. Not many companies have pushed things that far. |
| eugene:
--- Quote from: Monkeh on June 24, 2022, 10:35:37 pm ---Amusing. What do you want me to cite (not site) here? The three common types which indicate no single accepted standard? You know what they are. The different charging protocols? Do your own research there. --- End quote --- OK, so it's a puzzle. There are exactly three different connectors. I have listed two of them repeatedly: USB micro-B and USB C. You're saying there's a third and you want me to determine what it is. I can guess either mini-B or that Apple shit. If you mean mini-B, then I will argue that it is an accepted standard that is dying a natural death as it should and as most standards do eventually without governmental intervention. You might say it's not an accepted standard, I say it is. Whatever. There can be more than one standard so long as everyone knows the difference. If you're talking about the jack on iPhones, then I agree that it's not an accepted standard, at least not accepted by me, but I still say it's between Apple customers and Apple. In fact, if the real problem here is with Apple using a proprietary connector, then I wish everyone that feels that way would just say so. Open the window wide, stick your head out, and shout "I don't want that connector on my Apple phone and I'm not going to take it anymore!" One can say the name out loud in public without fear. Don't complain to your parents or the government in hopes that they'll make things better. Go stand up to the bully and tell them what you want. I don't really think this is all about Apple, but then I don't really know. In any case, do we agree that the only proprietary connector out there is on Apple phones? |
| Kyle_from_somewhere:
--- Quote from: eugene on June 24, 2022, 10:29:26 pm ---Sorry, I thought that was obvious. The people that do the allowing are all of the people that do not specifically inhibit it. It's that simple. --- End quote --- Then who are the ones who inhibit it and how do they do that? You're speaking in nebulous terms. --- Quote from: eugene on June 24, 2022, 06:46:00 pm ---I offered an example of a person who's knee-jerk reaction was was "I like USB C, so it's a good idea" before they actually thought about the consequences. It's just an example. But you are right; it's easy to find examples of many things. --- End quote --- You offered the example of someone who's only heard what you think of it and nothing else, who then repeated it back to you. --- Quote from: eugene on June 24, 2022, 06:46:00 pm ---Now how about those examples of battery powered devices with proprietary connectors that you want to charge in your car. I'm still waiting for those. --- End quote --- I don't own a car. But if I did own one, I'd probably want to charge my iPhone in there, which has a lightning connector. The lightning connector is rubbish and I'd like an iPhone with usb-c, but that mysterious "free market" thing that's unexplained but also apparently meaningful hasn't provided one. |
| Monkeh:
--- Quote from: eugene on June 25, 2022, 12:25:02 am ---In any case, do we agree that the only proprietary connector out there is on Apple phones? --- End quote --- Possibly. However, I never mentioned proprietary connectors to begin with. |
| eugene:
Folks, I'm sorry that it took me so long to catch on. This is all about iPhones. I didn't see it because, for some reason, nobody has had the balls to to say out loud what the problem is. I apologize for taking up so much of your time. So please, do whatever it takes to get the fearsome giant to put a fucking USB C connector on your next phone. I don't blame or judge. |
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