Apple is set to kill off the Lightning port, claims analyst

Consumer tech giant Apple will drop its proprietary Lightning charging and earphone port and replace it with the more widely used USB-C next year, according to an analyst.
Ming-Chi Kuo, analyst at TF International Securities, who describes his MO as ‘sharing observations and predictions of tech industry trends’ dropped a couple of tweets predicting the end of the lightening port today:(2/2)It’s expected to see existing USB-C-related suppliers of Apple’s ecosystem (e.g., I