While you have a valid point, Apple is just pinching pennies here, and perhaps not even a single penny. Even if the non Pros have a last generation SoC, it can clearly handle TB transfer speeds. Why not just standardize the whole product line with USB3.2?
Won't make a difference if you are connecting directly to your Mac, you will still only get around 50-60MB/s.
Unless you live on a planet made of frictionless cheese, I think Physics 101 is a pretty real thing.
Whatever are you talking about? Sure sometimes one might see up to 33 Mbps from Airdrop; so what, that is still just 1/1000 of of a wired Thunderbolt connection. Plus the issue of connection consistency is huge, far far superior using TB.
This. I had a frustrating week with my phone and visiting Texas. It was 105° all week and my rental used wireless car play. Charging kept pausing due to the ambient temp and the phone was nearly unusable since it would slow itself down and dim the screen.
Nope. The original poster is right that USB-C can (and already has) achieved speeds that are impossible for Lightning. You are right that lightning could support USB 3.1, but that's the last protocol it could support. Everything above that requires more than the 9 pins (8 pins + ground) that Lightning has.
Me too. And this is despite owning no devices older than 2-3 years and using a brand new Wi-Fi router.
It’s completely absurd that anyone is arguing against high speed data transfer via USB-C, as if it’s some sort of scenario where Apple can only do wired or wireless, or USB-C with Thunderbolt or USB-C with 2.0 specs will make data transfers and charging more complicated.
Being that Apple makes iPhones for profit, not for fun or giving consumers the best that $799-$1599 can offer in 2023, positioning better than 2.0 speeds as a "Pro" feature is a very easy way to incentivize consumers to spend the $200-$400(depending on 2023 lineup prices) more to go with a Pro iPhone 15 over a mid-tier one.
My point remains. il will take years before we see wifi 7 everywhere. even if i buy an expensive wifi 7 router at launch, it is unlikely i will get the same protocol when visiting a friend or going to a café or even in a studio, at least for the first decade. this is not even accounting the reliability issues with wireless and the need for fast data transfer on the go. professionals do not rely on wireless protocols for huge data transfers, and it ill remain like that for the foreseeable future
Well, that will depend on what the EU and other regulators force upon the industry. I'm already waiting for what happens when a new, more efficient, sturdier connector is invented but blocked from use by politicians. And I'm all but positive regulators will find port-less iPhones unfriendly to 'consumers'.
Just because a standard is 20 years old doesn’t mean it should not be relevant to the latest tech. Besides, newer standard means less time to test and refine, meaning it has higher chance of failure naturally.
Wireless is the way where it suites the best. Ever wonder why your electricity doesn’t come through a gigantic wireless charger But through carefully laid out cables?
Glad to see Apple is officially challenging the physics and Mother Nature. Please keep us updated on the progress.
Somehow portless and being a business is related, as if with all the ports Apple would make far less money or something. Unless you are saying Apple will quadruple portless phone price.
Sorry, but USB 2.0 is not relevant in 2023. 10 years old USB 3 has been already in production for quite a long time and we're already using it without any problems, there are no unexpected failures with USB 3 compared to USB 2.0... So sorry, but I don't eat that excuse.
So...we should not do it for convenience, right? @hacky argued environment should be ignored by the EU for convenience which goes against environmental reason for mandating USB-C. Contradictory. See where I'm getting it?
Your point doesn’t prove anything. Even with great local network speeds, a pro user will be out of luck to transfer huge files with a portless iPhone the second they step outside their home. Your point about WiFi 7 fast rollout remains to be proved.
