I’m not ashamed to say it: I’m sad that Lightning is finally going away

The world is celebrating the iPhone ’s switch from Lightning to USB-C this week .

People love to hate on Lightning — and they have good reasons to.

Using a Lightning cable hardly requires any thought — its biggest revelation, at first , was that it could charge your phone no matter which way you plugged it in.

The connector's small size has kept everything Lightning-related small and portable.

It also created a generation of reliable and portable travel accessories.

The switch from the 30-pin connector to Lightning won't be nearly as painful as the switch.

Still, I'll look back on my 11 years (and counting) of Lightning Life fondly.

When Apple executive Phil Schiller introduced Lightning in 2012 , he called it a “modern connector for the next decade ”.