In this edition of TC’s Week in Review (WiR) newsletter, we cover Apple’s iPhone 15 announcements, casino hacks and California’s proposed AV truck ban.

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      Because it demonstrates the abilities for Democratic governments to regulate the excess of recalcitrant corporations.

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        If you read most of those articles, though, this narrative is unfortunately not usually emphasized.

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          A decade ago, years before USB-C was ready, Apple announced Lightning as their connector for “the next decade.” There’s no need to emphasize government regulation when there’s scant evidence it had any impact at all.

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            Lmao you’re seriously drinking the koolaid here.

            If that’s the case, why did apple launch a drawn out legal battle with the EU against this if they were going to do it anyway?

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      Because of apple’s size. And because we just witnessed a death of a proprietary connector. A major win for the consumer and for the universtal serial bus projects overall mission.

      On a side note. Apple has been part of the usb c project from the beginning and based on some biographies - they worked hard to never release Lightning. But they needed to drop the old 30pin connector and found usb C not ready when they needed it - so they release the lightning port instead. Then stuck to it for obvious profit /ecosystem reasons.

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      Because, to put it crudely, the EU just reminded cooperations they are not in charge

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      Because another connector has been stubbornly used for years and there’s a whole ecosystem of cables and peripherals made for that, now outdated, connector.

      I don’t think anyone can say in good faith this isn’t a pretty big deal.