Again, your ignorance and immaturity is showing - resorting to calling non-Android users children isn't helping your argument as much as you like to think. This has nothing to do with connecting to a computer (which the iPhone doesn't need to do), but demonstrating that in its current guise, the iPhone (and other iOS devices) can be pretty universally charged because they come with a charging cable that has a USB-A plug on one end that can be connected to pretty much any device that has a USB port (the only time I've seen this fail is connecting an iPad to a Wii - there wasn't enough current supplied so it wouldn't charge, but it would charge an iPhone just fine).

The iPhone is not picky when it comes to chargers, computer-sourced or otherwise. My Kindle charger works with it just fine, as does every other USB port I've ever plugged it into.

What phone do I have that needs to be cabled to a computer?

iOS 5 called and wants its tired meme back.

iOS devices have been "computer free" since iOS 6.

Sorry, I didn't mean to let facts get in the way of a good Apple bashing, carry on.

A cable that most EU users simply don't need, since they just use the cable that comes with the device and attach it to any number of standard USB ports.

However, the adapter does exist if you really must use your micro-USB charger with your iPhone, assuming that you don;t have access to a normal USB port anywhere else.

And I for one am glad that there is one holdout, because I simply will not use a phone with a micro-USB connector.

I could get behind a standard connector, as long as it was a good one.

Pity, since this means they'll be forced to use micro-USB, which is garbage.

Guess I'll be importing a phone with a decent connector if this passes.

Ok, I just did and it works.

What next?

I could try it with a 4S if you like. I have one around here somewhere. I can't test it with a 5 or above though - I don't own one.

That's one of the reasons Apple changed to Lightning - they were dumping the dock connector anyway (30 pins, some of which were for firewire which has been unsupported on iDevices for many years), and they wanted a mechanically superior connector - micro-USB was not the answer. It is much too fragile for what they wanted.

Other than the fact that it is proprietary, the Lightning design is much better than micro-USB on that front.

Right, so the parallax effect (that is able to be turned off) wasn't present, the slide transitions are the same, yet now causing issues.

The two new vomit inducing features seem to be screen zoom (which changed from centre-only whole screen to one side or the other on a per-icon basis), and the 'jostling' speech bubbles in iMessage.

You can quote the article, but it doesn't make it any more true.

Either way I'm sure Apple will address this with an "ultra flat mode" in an update that disables all the effects - they have already had complaints from non-vomiting people that the zoom animations take too long before the UI becomes responsive to commands. I expect they'll change the behaviour when they address that.

The zooming and sliding that hasn't been a problem in iOS up until this point, aye.

Suddenly it's causing nausea for some reason.

This story has been posted for about 2 minutes, so this will look ridiculous posting this soon, but Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion

Stick with the 360 controller then, since it also works with Steam already.

Or wait for the version that replaces one of the D pads with buttons, since the hardware is fully open (and also still developing, hence the beta).

One of the great things about the direction Valve seems to want to go with this is "set it up how you want, hack it if you need, use whatever you like" rather than trying to force anything specific. They simply had to design a controller since the Steam Machine is primarily aimed at being a console replacement, and relying on third party controllers simply wouldn't be feasible. That doesn't mean that you can't use one if you want though.

I'm sure Valve, who have been working on this for a year, haven't ever thought of that. Good catch.

My car has 5 seats and a big trunk, why would I want a pick up truck with only 2 seats and nowhere for my other passengers?

Why would I want to drive around in one of those?

Not only that, but they are a making a controller that is open in hardware spec, so if someone comes up with a better/different setup it will be trivial to make one that won't require "official blessing" from Valve to work.

"FA" wasn't "FR" by you it seems.

The beta units have 4 buttons where the touchscreen is, and are wired with a USB cable.

This information is clearly and obviously stated in the article text. It in no way contradicts itself.