Comment Re:What is it for? (Score 1) 120
Apple has a long history of replacing proprietary with open standards, working with the open standards to make them good enough to replace the proprietary tech. Apple likes to have the option of innovating, e.g. ADB was better than the serial ports for keyboards and mice that PCs had, then they worked with Intel to create USB that replaced ADB. Similiarly, Apple had early cheap LANs when ethernet was very expensive and fragile, then when ethernet got cheap and easy Apple moved to ethernet. And they helped create USB-c, and adopted it aggressively, giving it the advantages of Lightning, replacing older tech. The only lightning ports they still had when the EU mandated USB-c were on low end (low power, slow data) phones, keyboards, and mice, where Lightning worked well. Desktops, laptops and iPads were already USB-c. Moving the low-end devices to USB-c wasn't bad, and I don't think Apple fought against that, they just don't like mandated tech, because it prevents them from future innovations. For example, if the EU had mandated USB-a, then that would have blocked USB-c, so the both like open standards and they like the ability to innovate, they balance the two.