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It's nice that they're finally fixing this, but I feel like Gruber's take [1] is probably right. It's a little odd that there are no pictures, but this won't be released until 2016. As he points out that's four years after the Lightning connector came out.

It's been dead obvious since USB first came out that having a cable that worked either way would have been easier to plug in. We've been through a couple of revisions of the smaller connectors (A, mini-B, micro-B, the new USB3 version) but you won't start to see this for another two+ years.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/12/04/usb-lightning

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That is the single best thing I've ever seen Gruber write. His blog is so pro-Apple that it often fails to express their genuine merits and instead betrays his contempt for their opposition. Meanwhile that is a very incisive synthesis of each perspective that brought clarity to the legitimacy of Apple's position and the situation as a whole.

2016 definitely seems late. I also would've expected the speed to be more like 20 Gbps by then, but it's just double the USB 3.0 speed. That doesn't seem like a huge improvement.

USB 3.1 is already finished. The Type-C connector will be used for several future versions, it's not tied to a single protocol or speed.

If Gruber's take is true, then why Mac doesn't have a Lightning port? Or at least a Lightning to Thunderbolt cable.

They have a USB to Lightning since Lighting isn't that fast yet and the USB connector on the Mac side is a heck of a lot easier to plug into then the Thunderbolt.

> I feel like Gruber's take

You have expressed a thought, not an emotion.

http://www.wildmind.org/applied/depression/distinguishing-th...

Wow, that page is full of garbage.

Use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-message instead.

Hi! Welcome to the english language, is this your first week?

I looked at the page you linked and I realize there are people like those described there. That being said:

I think some people (at least one :) use "I feel" to express a notion that is too intuitive for a concrete statement like "I think".

I feel like that's what MBCook intended. ;)

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