Never had a failure in all my years of using it
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Greg Joswiak: Apple Will Have to Comply With the EU and Switch iPhone to USB-C
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What’s this issue affect? Nothing in terms reliability
There is plenty of room to invent faster, better connections while retaining physical compatibility with the USB-C connector format. USB-C does not dictate what signalling technologies are used. Future new devices and cables could deliver dramatically higher speeds without breaking backwards compatibility with the connector.
Perhaps a new Lightning to USB-C dongle, sold separately? $9.99.
Same way it was coming to the iPhone 14 and the 13, according to leaks?
Sure. But the anecdotal forum posts aren’t numerous enough to be relevant for journalists to care. Meaning it’s even less of a problem than the butterfly keyboard.
Just as none of my USB c devices have died. Just a few cables
Tim Cook: Is there is a dongle? You bet there's a dongle! And we're making it available for just $9.99. Can't innovate anymore my ass!
Most people don't care that much. The vast majority of Apple users aren't online talking about it. They aren't even aware that these comments were made. You're talking about like 0.1% of iPhone users being aware and caring.
It wouldn't hurt sales in any meaningful way. Even if people knew, they wouldn't hold out a year or two just to get a different connector.
Which sources were saying it for the 13 and 14 compared to the 15? Check the validity and track record of the sources and get back to me.
This was a good way of handling a dongle situation, it was relatively seamless.
It won‘t surprise me if Apple gives the EU the USB-C model while keeping others lighting. They did that very thing with the iPhone 14 physical SIM card. While the majority of the world‘s iPhone 14 still has the physical sim… the US model doesn't. Apple seems fine splitting designs where regulated.
I thought maybe they'd do this but after Greg's comment, I am convinced all models will have it
Very doubtful. Considering Apple have already started converting things like the Siri remote to USB-C, this signals where they're going for all their products.
And the SIM tray will disappear from EU/global iPhone models soon enough.
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Travesty! Lightening is just as suppior as USB-C. Apple needed to make lightening open source and then compete with USB-C. The licensing is the only thing that held Lightening port back from being world dominate. And, don't act like USB-C is better. The kind of USB-C port on devices is not any faster at charging or transferring than lightening. It's not like you are connecting a Thunderbolt USB-C to mobile devices for charging or data. I would have liked to see Lightening on a Android device... LOL, aww the mahahahas that'd make.
Apple's vice president of worldwide marketing, Greg Joswiak, today said that Apple will have to move to USB-C on iPhone and its remaining devices that still have a Lightning connector in order to comply with new EU rules.
Speaking at the Wall Street Journal's Tech Live event, Joswiak said that Apple ultimately respects the decision made by the EU to mandate a common charger across consumer electronic devices. "We'll have to comply," Joswiak said, indirectly confirming Apple will move to USB-C in the future.
USB-C will have to be the common port across a wide range of consumer electronic devices, including the iPhone and AirPods, by the end of 2024, according to the rules put forward by the EU. Apple is reportedly testing iPhone 15 models with a USB-C port.
Article Link: Greg Joswiak: Apple Will Have to Comply With the EU and Switch iPhone to USB-C
I find that extremely hard to believe.
I've had to replace numerous lightning cables due to the sheath at the connector end degrading. Exposing the wires.
Contacts getting dirty or physically damaged. Some of my lightning connectors only work one way now.
The thing is 10 years old. If USB-c can be an improvement in speeds and use (with its covered contacts) then I'm willing to switch over. Just like we all had to switch over from the 30pin. (OMG does anyone remember the FERVER when that happened???)
Developing new technologies is expensive. It requires lots of R&D that costs money. The new EU law says all devices must have a standard connector. This means if apple, samsung, google, or huawei came up with a newer better one they would have to "share" it with their competitors, thereby reducing or eliminating the incentive to innovate. Moreover, now that the precedent has been set that EU regulators can dictate which connector must be used companies are less likely to risk all the R&D time and money when the government can effectively ban what they invent.
In reality, if one company were to develop something better it could potentially license the technology to its competitors and collect a royalty, but only after the government approves the new technology and all of its competitors agree to pay the royalty, neither of which are a given. All of this adds to the risk of innovating and slows progress down.
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Kind of like Apple and Lightning. It's ancient and unchanged for quite some time. Quite a bit slower than USBC as well.