It WAS a good cable about 6 years ago when even flagship phones still used micro USB. I would have killed for lightning on my old android phone. However, usb c just takes the cake, every cake. It has its own problems but the tradeoffs are miniscule compared to lightning.

No 🤣

welcome to 2014 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB-C

They never would if switched if it wasn’t forced on them. I’m glad they were forced no matter how apple spins it

Good. Apple’s whole ecosystem can go.

Lighting was a good cable when apple made the switch from 30 pin connector and android was still trying to figure out whether they would use microUSB, miniUSB, and whatever the sam hell is. And there was no interoperability

Once USB became the standard their was no real reason to hold onto lightning other than it being proprietary and them wanting to hand hold their users

Lightning is/was actually pretty great. Also remember that it was introduced before USB-C even existed.

Lightning was a good cable. It’s just that Apple didn’t improve it any for a decade and never opened it up so it could have been a standard.

It’s smaller and more durable. It’s just slow and proprietary.