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Originally Posted by Bertuzzied
My cell phone from 4 years ago has the same microusb plug. even though the phone is obsolete, i still use the microusb cable at work to charge my phone. This cable from 4 years ago does exactly the same thing as what lightning cable does, which does the same thing the 3g cable did. Why didn't Apple just come out with a microusb cable to begin with? Sure its' great for business but really crappy for the consumer.
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You do know that the apple dock connectors do more than what a micro usb connector is capable of right?
Since you want to make simplistic arguments about complex issues I will break it down for you. The micro usb connector uses a 5 pin connection, whereas the Lightning connector uses 8 pins. Apple wants to carry video, audio, charging and data syncing over one cable. The micro usb is not capable of doing all of this, so you would have to add another port, probably a mini HDMI, which most Android products do. Apple decides that instead of that they will design a proprietary cable so you don't have to buy
two cables to accomplish the task the Lightning cable can with one.
Also the micro USB is incapable of carrying the kind of current required to charge an iPad