Why did apple have a 30-pin dock connector if USB can do everything?
https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/yxrfu/comment/c5zw18d/
Why does Apple have a 30 pin connector anyway?

USB is a stack of protocols which is over complicated. Many USB implementations are riddled with bugs and people are used to just "disconnect and...

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@SwiftOnSecurity in the middle of a industrial embedded USB deprecation because of this
@SwiftOnSecurity sometimes field techs need to plug in a usb, and if the device has been on for months, something fails to recognize the connection and requires a reboot, but it’s been on so long because it needs constant uptime, so my coworker had to sit at 3am while a team rebooted it in the middle of the night to make usb work again
@lampsofgold @SwiftOnSecurity they got to wait until 0300 on the same day/night for a spontaneous maintenance window?
Pure luxury! I was stuck on "sure, after the mandatory two weeks" or "it's this one weekend every three/six months" several times when things broke in not-yet-critical ways.
@RichiH no lol it was scheduled