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Why, you might ask.

It's a matter of how life felt in those days. Proprietary phone charging was a minor inconvenience.

These days we have convenience but are blatantly fucked by our superiors.

It wasn't much different those few years ago, but the fuckery wasn't as obvious and I still had my illusions of a just and mostly lawful society.

(Watched a 2004 movie, 'Shadow of Fear' and they all had these old style flip phones with many close-ups, showing the charging ports)

Why, you might ask. It's a matter of how life felt in those days. Proprietary phone charging was a minor inconvenience. These days we have convenience but are blatantly fucked by our superiors. It wasn't much different those few years ago, but the fuckery wasn't as obvious and I still had my illusions of a just and mostly lawful society. (Watched a 2004 movie, 'Shadow of Fear' and they all had these old style flip phones with many close-ups, showing the charging ports)
[–] • 2 pts

The best proprietary phone chargers were the ones that used a docking cradle instead of a cable with a connector. By using a cradle, the phone was charged in a way that there was no stress on a connector port that could break or loosen over time. It also forced you to have a designated charging spot where you kept you cradle and never lost it if you didn't move it to other locations. The downside of course was having to have more than one charging cradle if you needed to have on in the office or elsewhere.

USB ports are terrible on small portable devices because the USB port (outside of A and B) are all so fragile that the weight of the cable itself is enough to break it over time. It's just a bad design with no robustness. USB C turned out to be a nightmare standard since there are so many electrical and feature variants that no manufacturer seems to follow properly. Many cables can't deliver the power properly, don't include data pins for some features or lack the right specs for high speed data transfer. Add PD (Power Delivery) and the whole concept is now completely retarded. USB is great for some products, but phones are not one of those products.

The future is stupid.

[–] • 1 pt

The first cradle I had was on my Palm (Spring-something branded) and it was just a nice user experience. Come home, ram the thing into the cradle, start 'Palm Desktop' and shit got synced with my PC. Done. Salvaged that one from a flood situation and the owner didn't want/need it.

Stayed in that ecosystem for as long as possible with all the Treos (Not the Windows CE ones, of course), even switching to WebOS after. That got killed by bad management and strong competition way too quick and these days only lives in my TV. WebOS wuz robbed!

Yeah, the whole USB vs. IEEE1394 debacle... FireWire was clearly superior but IIRC, Apple fucked it up by asking for money for licensing the tech. With the byzantine clusterfuck USB has become, I sometimes wonder how FireWire would've fared with the inevitable feature creep. They had a much better starting position, at least. Greater speed, power and the ability to have devices to stream data without involving and loading down the controller.

Thing is, this is the world we live in and we don't get to choose our interfaces. One positive aspect, the more involved these protocols get, the more potential attack vectors there are to exploit.

Gives us a fighting chance against the digital NWO.