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EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C
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Not sure what you think that proves. It's much more difficult to change the main charging/data port than to enable or not a software feature. European phones have a physical SIM slot as well.
Okay and?
Point is Apple has had the ability to put higher data rates on iphone, but they didn't.
I suggest they still may not feel the need to do so even if switching the connector type.
Or maybe they will.
Likely depends on their perception of whether there's more people who'd eschew such a low-wire-speed phone and buy something else than there are people who'd use the wired connection instead of using upgraded icloud storage to transfer their photos/videos/files.
I don't know which way they'll choose, just suggesting it's not a guarantee a USBC connector would be faster than USB2.
We shall see.
Not necessarily. A new connector/standard would require the backing of industry and companies to even just get off the ground. Its just like the HD DVD/Bluray battle. Companies took a side and eventually the market chose a winner.
If someone comes up with a new connector and specification that rivals USB, it would need support from relevant industries/companies and prove itself in the market. Put another way, for as long as companies place their support behind USB, then it’s very unlikely that a rival would come along.
For now, the USB specification (not just the connector) is so entrenched that this scenario is unlikely. What’s more likely to happen is maybe a new connector that the USB-IF comes up with that improves on USB-C. Although for now, USB-C serves its purpose well enough that even Intel’s Thunderbolt also uses the connector for their specification.
Pure genius, you used a travel plug. With that logic, you can also use adapters all the time and every problem solved.
I hope the iPhone Pro models in the USB-C era support 10Gbps USB - if not Thunderbolt (I mean, they make iPhones with 1TB of storage that shoot ProRes video). But yes I fully expect the cable in the box to be USB 2 speeds, just like the current iPad Pro models.
My camera has wireless JPG but not Raw and I can have 200-500 shots at a dog show (mainly because you have to shoot a lot of bursts to capture them at their best stride).
Even if it did Raw, there is no way I'm using Wireless for that many 26 and 40MP files. I would prefer to use a Usb SD reader as I do now with a Lightning SD reader.
Now that the phones can shoot 48MP Raws, transferring those via wireless would be sloooooooowwwwww.
All that being said, if Apple just uses USB 2.0 speeds then its just them being petty which is entirely possible.
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This will force USB-A and micro-USB devices and cables to go obsolete as well. The amount of e-waste will be massive.
Where do you get that transferring wirelessly is slow? Do you not watch 4K movies over WiFi? Do you not download multi gigabyte files to your Mac via WiFi? Or do you have your Mac and iPhone tethered by Ethernet? We already use wireless transfers ubiquitously. Where do people get this idea that transfers from an iPhone is any different?
I just AirDropped 500 photos of a yoga class to a client in a park with nothing but my camera in one hand and my iPhone in the other to her iPhone. None of this required a single cable. She received them in under a minute.
WiFi 6’s theoretical limit is 10Gbps, the same speed as USB 3. What is it with everyone wanting to connect cables when we’ve long stopped relying on cables to get online and transfer massive amounts of data through the internet?
Wonder when Magic Mouse and Keyboard will switch to USB C. Plenty of time for Apple!
Some people think their likely niche use case is something that everyone wants to do.
I suspect Apple sees the lightning port on the iPhone as solely for charging as they’d expect you to do everything else wirelessly.
Honestly, ever since getting a couple of Qi charging pads and starting to notice them on office desks, coffee shops I work in or hotels I stay at, I’ve just stopped using the Lightning port for anything, including charging.
I haven’t physically tethered my iPhone to transfer data in… years? I work with a ton of data but I’ve embraced the Cloud to sync data between my devices. When I drop photos into Lightroom on my Mac, they just show up on my iPhone where I might swipe and sort through them while commuting and then finish the editing on my iPad with a Pencil. Not a single cable is used and I don’t explicitly transfer anything. They just sync seamlessly… wirelessly.
If Apple dropped the Lightning connector tomorrow and didn’t replace it with anything, I’d barely notice.
Where to even begin with this comment:
1. USB-C is not European (you explicitly quoted the part where I said the EU is great at regulating and poor at innovating)
2. There are many reports that USB-C is originally an Apple invention that Apple gave to the standard body
3. Lightning is thinner and more elegant than USB-C
4. Is this the USB-C innovation you refer to?
5. If there isn't a very clear advantage to upgrading the charging port, companies are wise to leave them alone (remember the 1990s when most Nokia mobile phones used different chargers?). USB-C over Lightning is a minor step at best except for very few users that need lots of bandwidth in data transfer.
So, poor quality on the part of Nokia - not something that is fundamental to the design of USB-C.
If Nokia made phones with Lightning connectors they could well have had the same issue.
I think you're missing the point. Even if USB-C had no technical and design advantages over Lightning (which it does), there is still a huge benefit from standardisation. It's just so inconvenient and wasteful to have to buy and carry around different proprietary cables for different devices.
Yeah, I’d probably agree with how well made it was. The USB-C connector on the iPad Air seems much more secure.
Eventually, sure, anything's possible. Just like eventually the 3-pin wall socket might be superseded by something else, but it hasn't changed for the past 100 years or so. I suspect we're going to be on USB-C for a long, long time to come!
As opposed to having to buy and carry around different USBC cables for all your devices?
I understand what you are saying in that (in theory) you will only need 1 cable and 1 charging brick to be able to charge everything, but just look at how many people lost their rag over Apple removing the charging brick from the box and now removing the charging cable for the Apple TV remote.
There seems to be a lot of people who want Apple to standardise on USBC but also don’t want Apple to remove charging bricks and cables from the box.
It seems like people complain about innovation being stifled but at the same time, don’t want Apple to change anything.
I hate to think how many chargers I have around the house from numerous iPhones and iPads bought over the years.
Yes, but your point is tainted by idealism.
Hundreds of millions of people ALREADY have all these different cables. We're not starting from scratch today.
This mandate to USB-C means that hundreds of millions of lightning cables and accessories will be discarded and USB-C cables will need to be bought to replace them.
Now, if you had made your point to take place at the transition to a completely new standard, then I'd totally agree with you.
But doing it 10 YEARS into the product's life cycle is the definition of wasteful.
I don’t remember all the complaints when Apple moved to lightning from the 30-pin connector. Even though the same arguments about waste apply.