Gonna blow your mind this but a load of people need at least some port or another to connect their Apple hardware to external gear. It's not just a charging port. Obviously your device is just a toy to you, but to other users it's not.
I 100% think it's this. Apple was moving away from lightning anyway and people are trying to attach themselves to the issue now to take credit later.
I'm sure it'll last a long time. But now it'll have to.
And can you tell me how car play would work??
Great for Apple. They can now say. "It is not our fault all your lightning accessories are useless...."
Many users would rather they didn't do that. Huge swathes of users rely on plugging their devices into external gear via a physical port of some kind, as per my reply to bgarnett at the top of this page.
Of course we do, some of us aint that stupid to not know how to connect a wire to a phone.
Yes. It is way too slow to charge like on vacation when you quickly need to give your phone a battery boost or when you need to charge it at Airports, on trains or in your backpack with an powerbank on the go. So many use cases
Cable manufacturers are responsible for this as they need to label on the cable according to various standards.
That's fine if it reduced waste, no? Surely, there is a tradeoff if one is to care for the waste and environment?
In fairness the writing was on the wall ever since Apple started introducing usb c seven years ago in the first couple of products.
That’s a clear opinion piece. But sure leave big tech alone to figure these things out, what could possibly go wrong.
Probably just include an adapter, just as they did the last time the EU tried to mandate a port.
Yes, which slows down the rate of advancement. Put it this way. Let's say Amazon develops some new tech that creates super fast transfers, superfast charging or any other magical item that is on your wish list. Unless everyone gets on the same page, this advancement never reaches comsumers.
Apple never included any adapter with iPhones as far as I can remember.
After 15 years on the market it’s relatively safe to assume the product is mature. Most countries also don’t. Hangs their wall plugs and power chords and the world doesn’t stop spinning. Much more annoying than lightning cables, at least for me personally, are the old mini and micro usb cables that often times are still used and that will then finally be removed from the market. A few years too late for my liking but change always takes some effort.
