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To: Doren who wrote (196603)	3/1/2017 9:21:21 PM
From: Zen Dollar Round	1 Recommendation Recommended By Stock Puppy Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

I was wondering the same, but according to the USB-C Wikipedia entry, the spec was only finalized in August of 2014. That's two years after Apple moved to the Lightning connector. I agree that proprietary interfaces are bad, but if you believe Apple and Tim Cook, they had no choice at the time given the functionality they wanted from the connector. I was so glad when Apple dumped NuBus and ADB in the 90's and adopted industry standard PCI and USB, for example. Same thing with moving to Intel processors and sticking a fork in the PowerPC architecture.