In the ten years since lighting was released, which would you say has had more innovation Lightning or USB-C?
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EU Gives Final Approval to Law That Will Force iPhone to Switch to USB-C
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Thats great, now we can have even slower data transfer speeds via MagSafe. I look forward trying to read an SD card wirelessly.
This will just slow down innovation in the future when there’s inevitably a new form of wired charging which is more efficient but companies within the EU cannot adapt.
Either way I hope apple accelerates a portless iPhone, will enjoy replacing my iPhone 14 pro with an iPhone 17 ultra max Tim apple edition.
Either way I hope apple accelerates a portless iPhone, will enjoy replacing my iPhone 14 pro with an iPhone 17 ultra max Tim apple edition.
Ireland and Cyprus are occupied islands. Greece is a failed state. Once they are truly independent countries, they will switch to Euro plug.
I have no trouble shooting events on a Sony a9, transferring dozens of selects to my iPhone in my pocket as I shoot, doing some preliminary editing in Lightroom for iOS and AirDropping photos to my client's phone in seconds where they can then share them live with their audience.
The iPhone doesn't have an SD card reader and it doesn't need it, neither built in or plugged in. It has a well established App Store that can link to devices where those SD cards are inserted. If your camera doesn't already do wireless transfers, then it's your outdated tech that you need to update. The Future (present) is wireless.
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True. Tim Cook is so ignorant when it comes to products that I wouldn’t be surprised if an upcoming iPhone with USB-C was limited to USB 2.0 speeds. If that would boost Apple’s profit margins, Tim Crook would consider it.
All wireless - how does that work if you have to physically update? Take it into Apple instead of plugging it into your mb/pc?
Methinks Apple has a bit to go before they walk that route.
Of course but it’s more expensive to manufacture devices with different connectors for different geos. In practice, if a major geo forces some aspect of some device, all geos tend to get it. I can give many examples but just in front of me right now there’s my main TV - there’s no reason for it to support NTSC here in Switzerland yet it does, because that’s the US standard and it’s cheaper for them to make one model fits all.
If Apple slowed down charging any more the flagship mobile device would be a Moto Micro-TAC.
There‘s no reason that a new form of wired charging should need a new connector. It could be added to a new version the USB power delivery spec and anybody could implement it via USB-C provided they included backwards compatibility with older chargers. The EU rule will stop somebody gratuitously introducing an unnecessary new connector or saving a few bucks over the competition by dropping backwards compatibility.
It's wider than that. Think if you only needed one charger to charge your devices and not ten. Years later that single charge can still be used.
No landfill.
*today. We're talking about a phone in 2024. The most recent Qi standard goes up to 50W with more concentrated energy. MagSafe aligns the charger for even more efficiency.
Besides, you lose more energy doing a single extra load of laundry once in a year (4-5 kWh) than it'd take to charge your iPhone for that entire year (3.65 kWh).
Yeah, I can see Apple going this route just to say how do you like this EU? It’s been rumored for a while now, so maybe this will be the catalyst for Apple to “show the way” once again.
What, specifically, makes you think Apple would necessarily use anything other than USB2 data speeds on a USB Type C port?
They've done USB3 on Lightning before for an ipad, then continued to put USB2 on phones.
Thus my question - why do you think changing the connector necessitates changing the data speed?
How do you like having to send in and pay to do a restore on your phone? Unless Apple builds a secondary bootloader with a recovery environment similar to Macs. I am completely against a portless iPhone.
Lets be serious though they won't. They also won't put out a wireless airplay adapter and just expect people to run out and buy new cars to be compatible with their phones.
I'm going to bet there's a 2-in-3 chance that next year's iPhone won't have a USB-C port, or a Lightning port, with them going to entirely wireless charging and data transfer, possibly with a "copper pads only" connector like the SmartConnector on the iPads, for use for bringing an iPhone back from the dead (DFU and that sort of thing).
Not saying that's my preference, just seems like a direction Apple may be headed.
Not saying that's my preference, just seems like a direction Apple may be headed.
China bans eSIM on mainland, yet other regions have eSIM-support.
USA already got their own variant of iPhones with 14, might as well keep Lightning in it, too?
... which was a far cry from proper USB3-speeds due to the technical limitations of the connector.
Or maybe rely on third-party companies to fill in the gap with wireless airplay adapters for vehicles?
Desperate seems like a hilarious word to use to describe the space savings afforded by getting rid of one Lightning cable. If you were that desperate, there are USB-C to Lightning adapters for charging that aren't much bigger than a quarter. Stick it on the end of your USB-C cable and now you have a Lightning cable, without all the extra bulk. Are you really arguing that you don't have space in your bags for something the size of a quarter?