Bloomberg Confirms Apple is Testing iPhones With USB-C Ports

[AndiG]

Just one more question: what does the EU have to do with the rest of the planet?

Oh, well the EU is one of the biggest markets and will bring Apple down exactly the same way it did with Google and MS. There is no way Apple is going to split and deliver different connectors in different countries. Lightning is an outdated technology Apple used as long as it was possible (and even longer). But now, finally, Lightning is dead - on the whole planet. You could also say the EU triggered the worldwide extiction of the Ligthning port. But at the time we discuss this, Ligtning is already just a walking dead and it has been for several years already.

 

[I7guy]

[…]I still continue to enjoy other more innovative devices until then and even then.

Someone who gets it. Free market system at work.

 

[bluespark]

I’m curious how iPad users have liked or disliked type-C as a physical connector (ignoring speeds, features, etc.).

Some comment they don’t like the physical connector.

How have iPad users held up? Would you want to go back to Lightning?

Love it. No downsides at all that I can see.

 

[tobybrut]

Love it. No downsides at all that I can see.

I absolutely despise USB-C as a physical standard. It is the third worst physical connector ever created next to F-connectors and Molex. The problem is that the connector is a male connector, which places the fragile part in the socket and not in the cable where it belongs. I can't tell you how many USB-C ports have broken on me. I'm typing this reply on a MacBook Pro 15" 2016 that has two broken USB-C ports and one weakened one. They sort of work, but are so weak that cables won't stay in them and fall out. I've replaced at least one motherboard and two daughter cards because of broken USB-C connectors.

My slightly more than one-year old M1 iPad Pro's USB-C port is weakening, too, with the charging cable dangling lower than it should, though it still works. My wife's iPad Pro 11" 2018 has an intermittent USB-C port that will sometimes charge and sometimes not. Our typical use for those ports is for charging, and that's about it.

While I hate Lightning's feature set, it is a superior connector where the weakness is appropriately in the cable. Break a cable and use another from the drawerful of Lightning cables everyone has. Break a connector and it's a huge repair bill.

 

[LV426]

I absolutely despise USB-C as a physical standard. It is the third worst physical connector ever created next to F-connectors and Molex. The problem is that the connector is a male connector, which places the fragile part in the socket and not in the cable where it belongs. I can't tell you how many USB-C ports have broken on me. I'm typing this reply on a MacBook Pro 15" 2016 that has two broken USB-C ports and one weakened one. They sort of work, but are so weak that cables won't stay in them and fall out. I've replaced at least one motherboard and two daughter cards because of broken USB-C connectors.

My slightly more than one-year old M1 iPad Pro's USB-C port is weakening, too, with the charging cable dangling lower than it should, though it still works. My wife's iPad Pro 11" 2018 has an intermittent USB-C port that will sometimes charge and sometimes not. Our typical use for those ports is for charging, and that's about it.

While I hate Lightning's feature set, it is a superior connector where the weakness is appropriately in the cable. Break a cable and use another from the drawerful of Lightning cables everyone has. Break a connector and it's a huge repair bill.

Message understood loud and clear. But the worst connector ever surely has to be SCART. I mean, just look at this thing. And D-type connectors aren't much better. In my early days fiddling with PCs, I couldn't tell you how many times I tried to force a D-type in the wrong way round when reaching round the back of a tower PC.