You believe a multi-billion or per market valuation multi-trillion company is unable to incorporate USB-C on an iPhone or any other accessory that purposely uses lightening.
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Yep, there’s zero reason for peripheral devices such such as headphones, keyboards etc to use USB-C.
But no worries EU already mandates all things to use USB-C unless too small to use it such as Apple Watch etc. but no more micro usb or lightning ports and cables
Wonder why a micro USB-C connector is not available as it could be used in devices such as smart watches, etc.
I bring a cable for each device so I can charge them all at the same time. The space taken up is minimal.
Waterproofing. And micro usb c doesn’t exist. The regulators only covers devices with a port. If no port is used then they are in the clear.
Wireless standards are on the horizon in the future to be regulated depending on how the market develops. So we will see in 10-20 years
Apple love forcing their customers to do things they don't want to do… Remember when they forced everyone to abandon their 30-pin iPod/iPhone/iPad charging cables to adopt the better lightening cable? I suppose that was Apple's version of a "wet dream", as you so eloquently phrased it?
Well, now it's our turn to force Apple to abandon their lightning cable to adopt the better USB-C cable.
We've earned our… dream… come true.
The internal space needed to receive a USB-C micro would probably be greater than an inductive loop. Also, one less hole.
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"Engineering students need to find more useful things to do with their time."
"Engineering students need to find more useful things to do with their time."
Very cool. While I like that USB-C is pretty universal at this point I still feel like the lightning connector is more durable.
I never understood the anger that some people had for the change from the 30-pin to the Lightning. Lightning is a better design and freed up significant space inside the device for other goodies. It's just a cable. And Apple gave them away with new devices.
Greed. Lightning is proprietary, there is a whole universe of accessories that use this connector and they have to pay Apple for it. Same if they bring the “MFi” (made for iPhone) branding.
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Actually, it's to keep cheap accessories and chargers from overheating and blowing up the battery. It's about eliminating liability. Apple successfully deflected liability after proving customers were using counterfeit/defective chargers or sat on their device.
Samsung has not been so successful.
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You're probably right, but I still think there are plenty of instances where one will want a port. I mean, the current Lightning port is still super slow for transferring the ProRes video off the device. If Apple still plans to have the Pro phones as devices that can be used in the field, they at the very least need to upgrade the Lightning port to a higher speed. That said, even if they just brought USB-C to the Pro phones, I think most users would be fine with that. Less everyday users screaming about "what about my cables, this is a cash grab!", while others that have a bunch of stuff on USB-C already being relieved to have to deal with one less cable.
Whenever I go on trips I have to pack two cables, a lightning cable and a usb-c/thunderbolt cable for everything else.
I think back around 2017-2019, that was definitely the case. But today it's so much easier to find reasonably priced and reliable USB-C cables that won't fry your stuff. That said, the USB-C standard can be a bit of a mess for computers and data transfer, but just charging isn't so bad.
The energy loss from wire transmission is far less than wireless. The major benefit wireless has is mobility, however if people charge their phones every night or once every two days then wireless is a convenience not a benefit.
There is always going to be one or more holes on an iPhone. Speakers/mic’s, SIM tray (supposedly it’s going all eSIM) and at present lightening. The problem is how does one troubleshoot a phone with no port if it has been hacked, data over wireless is still slow, unreliable and can be locked out with a hack to disable. There is the possibility to disable a lightening port but I am not aware of one at the moment.
I wouldn't want a portless phone for just the reasons you mentioned. My comment was about a port on the watch.
A hard reset will disable data flow on the Lightning port on the phone and iPad. Also, leaving it locked for an hour.
So many comments are saying it’s a waste of time, but I get the feeling this is this person’s hobby. Hobbies are supposed to be activities that would be a waste of time to many other people, right?
I guess for some people it’s a hobby to criticize other people on the internet ?
I guess for some people it’s a hobby to criticize other people on the internet ?
I agree. But with small devices such as smart watches or truly wireless headsets etc it makes more sense to use wireless charging.
I’m not talking about wireless phones.
And therefore it makes sense to only target a device with a port to use usb c. If the manufacturer wants to go portless, then we have Qi charging
Do you have a good recommendation for wirelessly charging my airpods in my backpack, a random person‘s car, or during a break on a hike when I can’t wait forever? That would be pretty cool.
That'd be great if the cables (and ports) supported everything. Last weekend I wanted to use a longer usb-c cable to my SSD for some data transfer, and found out i had:
- handful of cables that supported ONLY power, no data
- seperate question of just how much power they can provide
- most of them support data, but only USB-2 speeds
- 2 cables that actually supported USB-3 at 5gbit
- 2 thunderbolt cables (at least they're labelled)
- Though one supports higher datarate than the other. Thankfully they're different colors & lengths so i know which one is which.
And not just cables -- my work (PC) laptop has 2 usb-c ports, but only one supports thunderbolt. video bandwidth out the other port also seems sketchy. but it seems to charge better off that port than the thunderbolt port
USB-C 1-cable seems like a great/lofty goal, but the end user experience can be bad from these issues.
At least lightning i know exactly whats going on, and all the cables act the same.
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More profitable for you and everyone else to carry those 3 different cables. Even if you didn't buy them from Apple, Apple still gets the licensing fees for Lightning.
Pretty much all "makes no sense" (Apple) decisions comes back to what is more profitable. Just apply that to everything and what can seem like madness makes $en$e... for AAPL anyway.
If that was true, then why is it not an issue on iPads and other devices that do not use lightning?
The motivation is money, plain and simple. Apple has other ways to control genuine cables and chargers, in fact it does so, one time someone gifted me a cable and my iPhone promptly told me it was not supported, it looked like the real thing but the device was able to tell it wasn't.
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