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Weekly poll: how do you feel about Apple's impending transition from Lightning to USB-C?

Remember the 30-pin connector that originated on iPods and was later used on the early iPhones? It was a large, clunky but surprisingly functional thing. It was replaced in 2012 starting with the iPhone 5 – Apple’s new Lightning connector was sleek and reversible, a few years before the first Androids with USB-C appeared in 2015. And that made a lot of people angry. While the Lightning had advantages over the 30-pin connector, due to being on millions of iPods and then millions more iPhones, the old connector was featured in a multitude of devices that suddenly needed an adapter. There...



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