2019 iPhones 'Likely' to Have Faster 18W Charger and Lightning to USB-C Cable in Box

[jagolden]

Lightning has served its purpose and needs to die.

Seriously, it's well past its sell-by date. Its only advantages over micro-USB were durability and ability to be flipped. Those are gone with USB-C, it's easily more durable than Lightning and is flippy. It also can move more power and is faster.



Yeah, tell that to my girlfriend.

Sure, MY lightning cables last years. But she's lucky to get two months on the heavy-duty non-Apple cables she gets, she can destroy an Apple cable in a week. They're fragile.
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You understand that people do that all the time, right?

Cables need to be designed for real-world use cases, not careful tech heads.

Apple used to understand that. It's why they designed MagSafe.

Yes, understand people do that all the time.
Not a tech head, just responsible.
Again, do they pull out electrical cords that way also? Guess it’s just natural selection at work.
That was not why MagSafe was designed.

 

[Mac 128]

Yet people are complaining wanting USB-C. So what is it? Apple sticking to USB-A, people complain, Apple making things to USB-C, and people still complain.

Luckily, accessories do catch up. I can buy car adapters and power banks that have USB-C on them nowadays. They’re quite common nowadays. Heck, I even have a powerbank with Qi wireless charging on it, so no cables needed to charge the latest iPhones.
And unless you’re a brand new iPhone user, you can still use your old lightning to USB-A cable if you like charging your phone in public outlets so much.

The people complaining are Apple users on a tech forum — the ones most likely to be using the latest MacBooks, and Android phones. And the ones most likely to plug in their phones to their computers to backup their devices, as that’s the fastest way to do it. Most people I know have never plugged their phone into their computer, other than to charge it, and few if any have ever backed it up that way.

I don’t have a problem moving everyone to USB-C, but when it’s clear the next step is wireless charging, and wireless backups, for the vast majority of mobile phone users, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to replace USB-A connectors worldwide for the vast majority of current electronics users. Replacing the cord and charger in the iPhone box is going to force most of the new users to buy adapters for USB-A in order to charge the phone with anything other than their included charger, and into the foreseeable future. The good news is, most likely you won’t have to share your charger with anyone since their cables likely won’t fit it.

By the time USB becomes ubiquitous enough to replace USB-A, Qi and WiFi will likely be a suitable replacement for everyone, and replacing USB-A with that should be the priority. Switching it merely because a minority of people with tablets and Laptops can use the same cable doesn’t really benefit the majority primarily with phones in a world full of USB-A outlets — a relatively recent development by the way, and far to soon to start changing it. USB-C’s main benefit is primarily as a data conduit. If mobile phone users aren’t plugging their phones into computers, there’s not much point to change it mainly for charging. If someone needs to buy an adapter, better the person with a laptop bag full of accessories, not the person with a phone they slip into a pocket.

 

[B4U]

Yet people are complaining wanting USB-C. So what is it? Apple sticking to USB-A, people complain, Apple making things to USB-C, and people still complain.

Luckily, accessories do catch up. I can buy car adapters and power banks that have USB-C on them nowadays. They’re quite common nowadays. Heck, I even have a powerbank with Qi wireless charging on it, so no cables needed to charge the latest iPhones.
And unless you’re a brand new iPhone user, you can still use your old lightning to USB-A cable if you like charging your phone in public outlets so much.
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I have my stock original cable from my launch iPhone 5 that’s still working fine as well. Heck, I have my old 30-pin cable from my iPod nano, still works as well.

People simply don’t take care of their stuff. But instead of moving on and get a new cable when theirs broke, complaining apparently feels more productive for them. :shrug:

Being a product engineer, I have see way too many products that have been abused by consumers and got send back for warranty when it is clearly user error. We can engineer all day to fool-proof everything, and there will be bigger fools to come.