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Why is a phone using a connector pretty much every other phone uses... news?
Because it demonstrates the abilities for Democratic governments to regulate the excess of recalcitrant corporations.
If you read most of those articles, though, this narrative is unfortunately not usually emphasized.
A decade ago, years before USB-C was ready, Apple announced Lightning as their connector for “the next decade.” There’s no need to emphasize government regulation when there’s scant evidence it had any impact at all.
Lmao you're seriously drinking the koolaid here.
If that's the case, why did apple launch a drawn out legal battle with the EU against this if they were going to do it anyway?
Because of apple’s size. And because we just witnessed a death of a proprietary connector. A major win for the consumer and for the universtal serial bus projects overall mission.
On a side note. Apple has been part of the usb c project from the beginning and based on some biographies - they worked hard to never release Lightning. But they needed to drop the old 30pin connector and found usb C not ready when they needed it - so they release the lightning port instead. Then stuck to it for obvious profit /ecosystem reasons.
Which biographies may I ask?
Because, to put it crudely, the EU just reminded cooperations they are not in charge
I see what you did there
Because another connector has been stubbornly used for years and there's a whole ecosystem of cables and peripherals made for that, now outdated, connector.
I don't think anyone can say in good faith this isn't a pretty big deal.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hey, friendly people, and welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular newsletter that aggregates the top tech news over the past few days.
Also on the agenda is payment processor Square facing an outage, California considering a ban on autonomous trucks and the tumultuous canning of supply chain startup Flexport’s CEO, former Amazon consumer chief Dave Clark.
Following reports that Caesars paid millions in ransom to a cybercrime group, hotel and casino giant MGM Resorts has confirmed a “cybersecurity issue” is to blame for an ongoing outage affecting systems at the company’s Las Vegas properties.
According to reports on social media, the incident has led to outages impacting ATM cash dispensers and slot machines at MGM’s Las Vegas casinos, and forced hotel restaurants to accept cash-only payments.
On this week’s episode of Found, meanwhile, the crew interviewed Jaleh Bisharat, the co-founder and CEO of NakedPoppy, an e-commerce site that helps people find the makeup shades best suited to them and offers a marketplace of “clean” natural beauty products.
The panel focused on the biggest opportunities and challenges facing web3 enterprise, featuring speakers like Dan Sun, the startup success manager for web3 APAC lead at Google Cloud, and Gagan Mac, the head of product and senior director of web3 services at Circle.
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AV truck ban. I know faketaxi, did not know there's faketruck.
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