Same. If the MagSafe Duo was USB-C and supported fast charging for the watch I'd pick one up for travel straight away.
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Gurman: AirPods and Mac Accessories Likely to Switch to USB-C by 2024
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Same. If the MagSafe Duo was USB-C and supported fast charging for the watch I'd pick one up for travel straight away.
Part of me wonders if AirPods might just go to wireless charging only.
Other devices are not charged/plugged in multiple times daily.
It could but what would be the advantage over just switching to USB-C?
For the phone there are arguments that USB-C is slightly taller than Ligntening so it might be hard to package or that having any port compromises waterproofness. Neither of those things is really relevant to the Airpods case.
Problem with any ports they break. especially lighting cables etc. I am no longer using lighting cables and using MagSafe from now on with my iPhone.Years of iPad lighting ports breaking ( before they use USB c.). I had it with cables.
This is what has been said, just to get around the new laws. I can see why they would.
Um yeah that’s exactly what liberals want, less legislation. Too bad defunding social stability for the poor hasn’t worked out too well in the USA.
Regardless as an EU citizen I’m happy this is happening and wish they’d push it on to more devices like shavers, and start forcing companies to make laptop batteries user removable again.
Because lightning had so much innovation the last years...
C'mon...
So why has Apple been touring an obsolete lightning on iPhones when they have it on their iPads and Macs?
Apple could “innovate” by implementing the superior USB-C on the iphone years ago without the need for government regulations and interventions….
oh that’s right because Apple makes
$BILLIONS licensing and selling an obsolete port.
If anything, MONOPOLIES are what stifles innovation as corporations would have incentive to innovate and continue to rip off consumers.
We ALL know Apple would‘ve been happy to continue to license their lightning for several more years if EU and it’s market finally had enough.
what I want to see next is to end Apple’s MONOPOLY App Store on iOS/iPadOS and give users actual freedom to choose in the digital market space.
I don’t think they will anymore. At least not yet. I think that was the plan before the law. They’ll have USB-C on the iPhone until they can ditch the port completely.
Sure thing, a stick traded company is going to leave one of its key markets because you fail to understand that enforcing standards for all is a thing that can be done. They could also decide to close shop worldwide, an equally likely scenario.
We have almost five years of USB-C on iPads and almost seven years of USB-C on Macs and there really hasn't been a rash of port failures. Especially not over the much shorter time span that most people keep their phones.
I have an XR with an old battery and at most I plug it in twice a day.
I would argue that a 2016 MBP has been plugged/unplugged more times over its life span than a two year old phone, but where is the #macportfailure hashtag?
Very slowly when it comes to iphones.
No it wasn't, Lightning was launched before the publishing of the USB-C spec
And there's no "USB-C port mess".
Cables are fine. As good as cables can be.
Not true. I had throughout the years many phones with USB-C ports(including budget phones) and newer fried any phones no matter which cable I used to charge them and I also have a lot or 3rd party cables. I don't even see how that would be possible when any phones has overload protection. Even a bad cable would have no effect on the phone, the only way to fry it is through a short-circuit and that wouldn't be the fault of the cable.
Well it's not really relevant anyway taking in consideration that the subject is: iphones.
If you want a USB-C cable that supports every USB spec and every USB-C capability you can just buy the most expensive Thunderbolt 4 cable you can find(Apple sells one for 129$) and that should be more than enough but it would be irrelevant for iphones anyway as a 3$ 3rd party USB-C cable is enough to max the transfer or charging speed of any iphone. Oh and the 3$ cable I'm talking about is USB 3.0, its actually beyond the USB 2.0 spec of current iphones.
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That's 100% me. I have 2 of the magsafe duos for the family for travel and that's the only time we use them. They are nice, but would be great to have USB C and fast charging as my wife and I upgraded from AW4 to Series 7 last year. That fast charging is nice, especially when you sleep with your watch on every night.
There report recently on the business aspect that apple; would and is dev a different charging system To bypass the EU rules. They talked about no longer supporting charging ports ( to what extent not known ). I rather just use MagSafe charging systems than lighting cables. I do use QI charging now. But breaking ports on iPhones and ipads and cables are costly to the user.
I hope they go completely portless on everything, just as a middle finger to the EU.