Comment by kdkirsch

Apple gets unreasonable flak for this. They have used 2 proprietary connectors over their entire mobile range since the first iPhone in 2007 (or iPod when the dock connector was introduced in 2003). Each Samsung or Nokia phone I owned until getting my first iPhone in 2010 used a different connector. USB-C sure looks like the future but by the same logic the EU could have force micro USB which was inferior to lightning and would have sucked.