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European Lawmakers Want to Force All Smartphones to Have Same Charging Port, Apple Defends Lightning
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Ever heard of a simple cable on sale at any apple store which has USB C port on one side and lightning on another?
they even come in different lenghts
You miss the point entirely. The point is to ensure devices can SHARE cables thus reduce waste and excess cables.
Plus I’m still left with a redundant cable. One with USB and the other USB-C, plus a USB-C to USB-C cable for my other non Apple devices, etc etc....
Big thumbs up to the EU for this.
With Bluetooth headsets created less cables more batteries. It’s a trade-off, imo.
Floppies died, vhs died, 8 track died, laser discs died. All connectors will undergo an end of life.
Correct, see above.
Suppositions are fun.
Show me the Lightning roadmap.
Apple would not be putting USB-C in iPads if they planned to continue with Lightning.
USB4 goes far further than anything Lightning has.
I don't need to ask Apple. They told everybody Lightning is dead by putting USB-C on the iPad Pro.
That’s not a roadmap. Hundreds of millions of devices have lightning. It has more life than usb4 will ever have.
However, the EU could try as they might. They won’t be able to force Apple to do anything they don’t want.
You are joking.
If the EU wants to force Apple, they can do it.
The only reason to allow Apple to introduce Lightning devices this year is if they plan to go fully wireless in 2021.
Nope I’m serious. You seriously believe the EU can force Apple to a certain hardware design? Apple will provide dongles.
Apple isn’t going fully wireless either. A decent method to charge the phone is needed.
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Of course they can force it. Unless Apple wants to stop selling devices in the EU or make different versions.
Apple strives for minimalism, not practicality. It would not be surprising if they plan to get rid of all ports.
How so?
iPad Pro follows Apple's normal paradigm of USBC on "host" devices intended to be used with external peripherals, and Lightning on "satellite" devices like phones or ipods or airpods.
The change was more that the ipad pro is more of a "host" device now rather than a "satellite" as prior ipads have been.
Not using the same connector for all iOS goes against Apple's own rules.
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The iPad Pro uses iPadOS, not iOS.
We shall see what happens with the other iPadOS devices as they refresh in the future and whether Apple shifts them to USBC or not.
Your belief they can force it might be very different than reality.
Again, getting rid of all ports means one has to provide a robust way to charge in every situation.
The EU already forced Microsoft to offer a version of Windows without WMP and later a browser choice window.
It is Apple who likes terrible design, not me.
One is flipping a few bits, the other is disenfranchising potentially 10s of millions of people.
Apple has great design and great hardware. Lightning should be standardized.
Apple has not been great for years.
Lightning is the past, USB4 is the future.
Getting rid of old wasteful technology disenfranchises nobody.
Yes, USB-C is a marketing nightmare. There's a reason there's a lot of confusion regarding it: It is very confusing. Many technicians I know are confused by it, so it's no wonder consumers are.
I suspect that eventually consumers will come to get used to the idea that there is only one port: USB-C, but that they are not all created equal. A bit like how consumers today understand that the shape of the port gives a strong indication as to its capabilities. That will no longer be the case with USB-C, and people will have to learn that.
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Putting in new tech that benefits a few, disenfranchises millions and helps little and causes massive waste is a universal failure waiting to happen.
The Lightning stuff will have to be thrown away anyway. The USB-C stuff will last for the foreseeable future.
Usb-c as a connector is inferior to the lightning cable and will have to be thrown away for that reason. I think what this will boil down to is dongles and adapters.