I have the M1 MBP and I am very mobile, in the sense that I make movies so I am at different locations. I move all the time and so pack and unpack all my gear all the time. I use the M1 MBP charger and cable to charge the MBP, my son's two laptops, My Galaxy s20 FE, and his iPad air when at home. I have to carry the Lightning cable for my Air Pods Pro. I have not broken any of the cables (both lightning and USB-C). However, my USB-C cable sees a lot more use across devices, and has not failed me at all. So, yes, the USB-C cable is robust. None of my cables, or the cables of people around me, have failed even once.
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Bloomberg Confirms Apple is Testing iPhones With USB-C Ports
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It’s funny most people don’t have those issues, it seems the Apple crowd has so many issues with non-Apple, just seems so….mysterious ?
I buy iPhones only every 4 years. I am perfectly happy with my iPhone 11 Pro Max. May be the iPhone 15 would be usb C but that would also mean new cables for me since both my wife’s and my $45k+ vehicles from 2022 still came with only wired CarPlay and USB-A ports. Yikes.
Actually my daughter’s Lenovo Carbon laptop would not charge any longer on the charging port that happens to be USB-c. Luckily I tried it on another usb-c port and it seems to charge. Phew. USB-c does seem to be fragile on the port side. Cable looks fine.
The only port that has gone bad for me is a usb-c. Never lightning. Plenty of lightning cables have gone bad though but they are cheap to replace.
Without regulations a free market will not provide what is right, it will provide what is the most profitable. Regulation is definitely needed for some things, and the way phones and now only two companies are ingrained in every single persons lives means that I can only see more and more regulation coming for both Apple and Google.
They'll release a USB-C version for Europe and the rest lightning...they don't want to lose all that product revenue when they don't have to. Private companies...gotta love em.
USB C seems like the same kind of cable. 30 pin to lightning was a huge improvement. This doesn't seem like it.
That is some good data. USB-C ports just don't look durable to me. It is possible they hold up better than Lighting I suppose. I have yet to put any hard miles on one but we will see.
If Apple have designed the USB-C connector to be the same method as the lightening connector which is on a flex cable, what's the betting that the student engineer that desiged the USB-C flex for the 'worlds first USB-C' iphone will sue Apple for copying his idea.
OR
Do you think Apple has paid him for his design so they can use it?
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Do you think Apple has paid him for his design so they can use it?
As others have noted, the lightning connection is a male cable to female port. But USB-C is a female cable to a male port. (who thought this was a good idea?!?) This USBC arrangement can cause issues over time.
I've had Lightning cables that did that, so it's no uncommon for that to happen, unfortunately.
Don't forget that the Lightning cables should be MFI as in Made for iPhone/iPod/iPad.
Otherwise, you'll get the popup display that says 'Accessory is not supported'.
People must pay more for MFI cables but it works better obviously.
Apple won't want to lose its cash cow from selling MFI accessories and will fight to the very end until it has to or is made to switch away from Lightning.
Read many people posting at several online boards that use their iPhones for 4K videos and hate Lightning because of the slow transfer speed whenever saving to the computer.
It's no different than transferring other file types or backing up to the PC using Lightning which is very slow.
I don't know...I'd kind of like the power port to be on the top so that it won't interfere with all of my iPhone stands.
I propose that we complain about people with orange avatars. ?
Putting it into your belly-button would also encourage it to get all linty. ?
It seems as Apple will continue to keep lightning ports as long as we keep buying iPhones lol. If this years IPhones sell well, do you really think Apple plans to switch a iPhone to USB C when a port isnt a big deal for the general population but it is for myself and many others here.
I will wait until next year to see if they make the switch but the current Pro max seems to be a 3 year device and the 2024 iPhone will be enticing while I still continue to enjoy other more innovative devices until then and even then.
I will wait until next year to see if they make the switch but the current Pro max seems to be a 3 year device and the 2024 iPhone will be enticing while I still continue to enjoy other more innovative devices until then and even then.
