Why not give consumers a CHOICE and offer a USB C model and a Lightning model? Then let the market decide instead of The Government Thy God?
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EU Reaches Agreement to Force iPhone and AirPods to Adopt USB-C by Fall 2024
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Typical user? Not so much anymore. Anyone shooting ProRes or just massive mounts of video in general may (does) need higher speeds but the cable itself is not the limiting factor as Apple has already demonstrated it can support USB 3 speeds because they did on one of the pre USB-C iPad Pros. I honestly believe we are probably a model cycle or two away from the Pro iPhones supporting Thunderbolt and the regular iPhones supporting USB-C just like the Pro and the Air models in the iPad line now.
This will be the iPhone to upgrade for 👏🏼👏🏼 iOS 16 does not offer anything that will make it reasonable to upgrade from my iPhone 12 Pro yet. Especially since we are looking at a price increase this year
Let them include shavers, toothbrushes, and countless other devices as well.
Good news, pure greed from Apple keeping around USB 2.0 in so called Pro phones.
Finally use the same charger for ALL my devices.
Finally use the same charger for ALL my devices.
i couldn't care less.
Apart from all the additional waste this will create with people discarding all their Lightning cables....
.. I havent plugged my iPhone in since wireless charging was a thing....
Apart from all the additional waste this will create with people discarding all their Lightning cables....
.. I havent plugged my iPhone in since wireless charging was a thing....
Bunch of salty Americans in this thread complaining about proper legislation. Does the Apple fanboyism run that deep that even common sense is outweighed by their cheerleading for a tech company? LOL
I'm not seeing anywhere that the USB-c port needs to be functional, just that the device needs to have one.
i fully support Apple switching to USB-C, I am fully against government regulations to do so.
I’m probably the only one who likes the lightning connection. Lol. I dislike the flimsy USB-C cable connection. Im gonna renew all of my Apple devices this year and enjoy another couple of years of the lightning experience.
I was thinking about it because the battery is going down to crap right now and I usually give my hand me down to my BF and his previous hand me down to my mum.
We really don't have that many cable standards and all of the cables (with the exception of lighting) are actually standards. - Some flavor of USB. At the time the original law was proposed almost every consumer electronics manufacturer was creating their own charging cable and USB charging was the exception and not the rule. The fact that the industry got to the point where we can use one of three readily available cables to charge any phone made in the last decade is actually pretty impressive on its own and that came about without any regulation.
I don't suppose the EU went as far as making the USB-C cable manufacturers label their cables so consumers can look at a USB-C cable and know whether it is charge-only or charge+data? And if the latter, is it USB 2.0 or USB 3.0/3.1 speeds, and if so, 5Gbps or 10Gbps? Thunderbolt 3 or 4? How many watts can the cable handle - 20W? 65W? 100W? And for charging phones, does the cable do QC or PD or both?
USB-C is a very capable cable, but for gods sake, label the cable so we know what it can do.
USB-C is a very capable cable, but for gods sake, label the cable so we know what it can do.
The EU needs to institute a buy-back program where they pay the consumers to turn in their non-USB-c cables and chargers for proper recycling rather than send them to a landfill.
fantastic news. lightning was obsolete the day it came out.
very fair point. usb has become a complete mess.
This salty American believes that if Apple or any other company were to invent some better technology than USB-c, they ought not to have Regulation prevent that innovation from moving forward. Also I believe that companies ought to design their products and can’t really see where the lightening port actually hurts any consumer so much that it needs the government to regulate it out of existence.
Well, that's why I said supposedly, I'm not pro-Lightning by any means. I think I've heard some people argue that Lightning is a more stable connection, and obviously it can fit into a smaller space. I'm sure Apple has a load or reasons why Lightning is better, none being that it's a better way for them to earn money of course /s.
Why do they have to PAY people to turn in their old chargers? You have to bribe people to "save the earth"?
Not sure where you live, but here in CA we have e-waste recycle events around town where you bring your old electronics for recycle and the events are free. No one pays anyone. I certainly don't need to be paid to get rid of useless stuff properly.
This is a really good point. Same with HDMI / HDCP, what a mess that's become.
Because almost nobody would take lightning if given the option of a USB-C port
Wild guess here, but I'd bet that Apple is over the moon about not having to include chargers in the box of many of their devices, adding millions or billions to their bottom line (since they aren't lowering device prices). I highly doubt Apple is interested in inventing some proprietary charging method again. They've learned their lesson from Lightning.
How do you know? Where is your economic/market research to justify this rather bold statement?
Why are people so afraid of CHOICE and letting people CHOOSE what they want and the company reacts based on that CHOICE? Why are people so anti-CHOICE?