This is your very first mention of anything being “anti-competitive”. We were talking about Apple “being a prison” and I was asking for examples because 90% of the people in this thread are saying things that flat out aren’t true. One dude brought up the 30 pin connector from the fucking iPod even.

[–] freebee 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They have a long history of overpriced proprietary cables and connectors ... Are you disputing it? The ipod 1 is a valid example and there were plenty other examples afterwards... They lock you in. Apple is a prison, or walled garden if you prefer that term.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

everything had proprietary connectors in the 2000s. I literally have boxes and boxes of old junk with proprietary connectors. I had the first large format android phone, the Dell Streak and it had a proprietary connector. And that was like 2011, 2012! Usb-C was still being standardized (Apple helped standardize it fyi) when the Lightning connector came out. And no, there’s no examples past 2012, it’s literally just Lightning since then.

Acting like cables are locking you in is hilarious. The true lock in to an ecosystem is what Apple does with their wireless tech. You can’t use Apple’s special connections like they do with their watches, headphones, laptops, etc. if you’re another manufacturer. So you get true actual lock-in. A cable costs 5 bucks, even the lightning ones, that isn’t lock-in.

Saying anything Apple did in the 2000s was lock in is just disingenuous, because standardized technology barely existed and it was fucking shit. Every manufacturer made their own cables, communication protocols, etc. because there wasn’t anything good to standardize on.

It’s clear you don’t have any actual examples from literally the past decade so get out of here. This conversation is done.

[–] freebee 1 points 1 week ago

That's just not true, there was for example already standardised mini-usb at the time of the ipod.