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Connectors: Apple vs Samsung

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Marco Mornati
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Marco Mornati
I build, self-host and sometimes break software in production — writing about AI tooling, coding agents and infrastructure.

Or, in other words, “when someone really loves Apple and goes blind”! Reading this article I noticed that sometimes people talk without engaging their brain. Apple has produced only 2 proprietary phone connectors in the last 10 years, and Samsung hundreds.

Yes, that’s true, but: how many phones has Samsung produced in 10 years, and how many has Apple produced?

You can easily check by looking at these pages:

Samsung: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung-phones-9.php Apple: Do you really need a page to count the Apple iPhones?

So: Samsung: 18 adapters and 809 phones = 2.22% Apple: 2 adapters and 7 phones = 28.5%

Yes, Apple can change adapters, but it doesn’t need to be the event of the year — and people shouldn’t attack Apple for using a proprietary connector instead of a standard. It’s true that other companies are converging on the same connector (micro USB), while Apple prefers proprietary ones. But you know Apple — in Europe they’re required to use the standard!