AppleTalk was there in every Mac - and was replaced by USB in the end.
FireWire was there in every Mac - and was replaced by USB in the end.
Lightning is now introduced
Thunderbolt will be there in every Mac - and will be replaced by ... guess what.
My statement is that the peripheral endeavors of Apple always have been not long lasting. There is little indication this will change in the future, based on the introduction of new proprietary connectors and standards.
On the other hand Apple has been quite successful when extending on existing standards, without breaching compatibility. Ethernet, WiFi and GSM card to name just some examples or the new Fusion Drive.
Claiming that everyone would own an iOS device in future is an foolish exaggeration, honestly.
We should learn from the past. Not just blindly hope for the best (which would be faulty, most likely).
We should learn from the past. Most definitely. It's time for a history lesson.
AppleTalk/LocalTalk was there, and got replaced by Ethernet (not USB). After ~15 years.
While AppleTalk was around, for clusters of Apple networks, its adoption was ridiculously high because Farallon introduced AppleTalk over phone wires. (PhoneNet)
In the beginning, LocalTalk was a small fraction of Ethernet's speed, but also a small fraction of Ethernet's price.
230kBit/sec versus 2 or 10 MBit/sec. 8x or 40x difference.
$20 per node versus $1000 per node. 50x difference.
Localtalk can be installed by a 5 year old and managed by anybody who can read a manual.
Ethernet needed to be installed by a professional.
For anybody who wanted to share data and
only involved Macs, Localtalk was considered quite a success. For everybody else, you either threw money at the problem or waited a decade.
Lesson: Cheap, fast enough, easy to use gets the adoption.
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You must be thinking about Apple Desktop Bus (ADB). It was replaced by USB starting with the iMac.
It also lasted about 12 years. ADB's design had flaws but its benefits were significant enough that USB designers looked at ADB for inspiration. So much inspiration that ADB-to-USB converters were trivial to design and highly compatible.
Given that USB uses all the good parts of ADB and is now everywhere, I'd say that's pretty much a success.
Lesson: Great ideas live on.
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Firewire. Designed by Apple & Sony. Expensive because it tried to do anything and everything.
Except most people don't need anything and everything. Firewire 400 was always faster than USB2.
Lives on in professional movie equipment, professional sound equipment, and specialized networking equipment... and USB3. Did you know that USB3 takes the most widely used parts of Firewire, and then builds an incompatible hybrid of USB2 and Firewire design concepts, and then stacks it on top of a USB2 port? Thereby making USB3 more expensive, harder to implement, and kind of overkill. Expect USB3 adoption to be much slower than USB2.
Lesson: Cheap, fast enough, easy to use gets the most adoption. (sounds familiar?)
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Thunderbolt. Designed by Apple & Intel. It's now on high end PCs mobos too.
Expensive because it's ridiculously fast.
Except most people don't have a use for that much speed.
Given that we know "cheap, fast enough, easy to use gets the most adoption," why do it?
Because if mass adoption was the goal right now, we'd all be using USB2 and Localtalk for the rest of our lives.
While you think "peripheral endeavors of Apple always have been not long lasting," you're neglecting that it's those endeavors which allow the industry to bring most of the popular technology to us later.