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No. Apple can create a working solution and submit it to the standards body. That's what being "open" means.



And then if the standards body doesn’t accept their solution because low end Android manufacturers don’t want to spend an extra 20 cents on a build of materials?

That’s why PC OEMs didn’t support FireWire before USB 3 came out except for Sony and Dell on some of their high end offerings.

If you don’t like Apple’s offerings you are free to choose Android/Windows


That's where regulation comes in - when it is mandated that devices have to support standards, all will have to support it.




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