How many people have one charger and one cable? If the charger shorts or the cable breaks now you can’t charge your phone. As people in MR point out incessantly the phone is the single most important electronic device?
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India May Force Apple to Adopt USB-C on iPhone After EU Passes Similar Law
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I hope they release USB C connector for the EU and India but give them the worst speeds possible for it and give other countries the good speeds. Just like they should give Brazil the slowest charger ever
How is this anti-enviromental? Your cables are going to be changed anyway, only this time you buy a USB-C one, or nothing since you’ll likely have one already from the new accesories that include them.So India is as anti-environmental protection as EU.
And nobody is forcing you to go running to buy a cable the second a USB-C iPhone is announced. This is a non-issue, c’mon.
Well, Apple put out a U.S.-only SIM card slot free iPhone 14 while all other countries got iPhone 14's with both a SIM card slot and eSIM. If Apple can do that, then Apple can do a for EU-only iPhone with USB-C. The question is would they.
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Apple didn't get rid of usb-c ports on the iPad and Macintosh... my point about innovations with USB-c/USB4 aren't really about Apple per se, it's just that USB4 enables so many features that lightning does not. And since Apple has adopted USB4/thunderbolt on some of its machines, why not embrace USB-C or even USB4 on the iPhone?
iPhone is powerful enough to drive an external display just like Samsung Dex... look at CarPlay you can use the car play screen while still using the phone simultaneously. Apple could tunnel DisplayPort via USB-c and allow users to have a similar functionality on an external monitor especially since the A16 chip is so fast... obviously Apple probably won't do this, but what it could do that would be beneficial for some users is enable faster transfer speeds at 10 Gbps or more...
I too would have thought this a few years ago until they started changing iPads to USB-C. It was obvious then that the iPhone would change too. Did the EU ruling hasten the switch? Perhaps. But it would have happened anyway. Then there are those who think Apple will skip USB-C and go straight to portless. I certainly hope they don’t do that. Having to stick a magnetic charger on the back every time you wanted to charge would would be a major pain.
This is one of the few advantages I could see if you had multiple devices of the same port. If you have enough you most likely have more than one cable with you. So if one craps out, it's inconvenient but you can still charge everything in rotation.
And you still keep the wireless option, be it Qi or MagSafe.
I'm coincidentally writing this from a phone that stopped charging overnight because my Lightning cable isn't "official" enough. I intentionally avoid buying Apple cables because they end up fraying. I don't find Lightning better at all.
Spiteful Apple could still do this. They already split the US and rest of world models over that stupid block of plastic instead of a SIM slot.
Name just one purpose for which Lightning is better. Some say the connector design, but it’s just as prone to wear as USB-C, perhaps even moreso because the pins are more exposed on Lightning.
Even the name Lightning has become truly ironic, as it now represents the slowest I/O bus available on a modern computing device.
That’s one new charger versus over 150 million new chargers with EVERY iPhone that shipped in a year, previously. The environment says “Thanks!”
People said that when the iPhone Minis were selling 5 million units too. More raw numbers than most smartphone companies ever see and still got cancelled.
Relativity goes both ways. Missing out on 96% of a 1.4 Billion Population is infinitely more significant than cornering 4% of them.
I got a better idea.
USB-C should have the same connector size as Lightning.
Anyways.
Another USB port shape will come by 2030 and everyone arguing again.
USB-C should have the same connector size as Lightning.
Anyways.
Another USB port shape will come by 2030 and everyone arguing again.
Why is it better? It can't support faster speeds, it's not universal, and will never be universal (there is no push to start using lightning on Windows laptops or Android phones or external hard drives). USB-C, on the other hand, is good in theory because it supports pretty much everything (HDMI, USB 3, Ethernet, fast charging, higher voltages, etc etc etc). And it would suck less if more devices started adopting it, such as, you guessed it, the iPhone. Imagine a future where everything just used USB-C and there weren't exceptions. Everyone would be able to lend you a charging cable. Every device would plug into every cable and at least be able to charge. What exactly is the point in working against this? USB-C does everything that lightning does, except the cables are cheaper, faster, and work with everything, not just a single manufacturer's single product line.
The one, single, only argument for Lightning is "I already have a bunch of Lightning cables and they'll become useless". That's it. And we're only talking about cables, not something that is really bad for the environment like batteries, which Apple seems to have no problem gluing into their devices with the strongest adhesives known to man just to ensure their expensive devices end up in landfills rather than be repaired and reused for years.
The same applies to every usb type device. I have multiple micro usb cables. Multiple usb to lightning. Multiple usb a to usb c. Multiple usb c to usb c.
The people who claim to have one charger which the sell with their phones doesn’t ring true. Can’t for the life of me figure out how the support themselves if their one cable or charger gets ruined.
When I travel I take what I need I would never take one of each on a trip — just asking for trouble.
Apple's fault for not offering dual SIM early on. Dual SIM is pretty standard in Asia.
Samsung has its own phone OS?😲 Smart of them to offer Android on their phones instead of forcing us to use SamOS or whatever it's called.
Apple's first target was gaining 1% of the market share. 3.94% of market share is a lot as India has almost 1.4 billion people and expecting a smartphone sale about 165 million in 2022. 2021 and 22 iPhone sales have increased a lot in India. An average Indian customer pays around 15000 Inr for a smartphone. ($185). If Apple could release an iPhone for about $350 with 6.1" screen and A14 bionic only for Indian market, within a year their market share would climb to 10-15%!
you know that the EU and US iPhones are physically different already with different frequency ranges and the EU has a Simtray while the US version does not.