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Terrible analogy. Most customers are hindered by the USB-C switch because most simply just charge via lightning on a day to day basis.

Switching away from horse allowed customers to go faster, carry more, with less maintenance.
Switching to USB C and USB 3.1 will allow me to transfer more data faster with less problems. The switch will allow anyone to interchange cables with devices that aren’t even phones, let alone iPhones. It will allow the easy connection of external storage and external displays. Want to show a presentation on a large monitor? A laptop is not necessary. Just plug a standard cable into your phone. You are letting your hang up with a small, one-time cost get in the way of an ongoing long term benefit. Penny wise and pound foolish.
 
Most customers are hindered by the USB-C switch because most simply just charge via lightning on a day to day basis.
my quality of life absolutely skyrockets with the switch to USB-C and 10 Gbps offload is, for me, earth shattering. It's the main reason I upgraded.
 
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I'm interested to know if next year if the iPhone 16 non Pro gets the full USB C 10Gbps speed when it gets the A17 processor or if the 'Pro' variant of the A17 is what allows for the full 10Gbps speed. If not related to that A17/ A17Pro is it limited by something else?
This is actually a good question. The A17 is capable of USB3 spec, whatever flavor it is, but what controller will the logic board have on it? They could bump the base phones to bottom level USB3 spec. That would make them faster than the 15s but still slower than the Pros. Course they could also bump the Pros to USB4 spec as well next year. At the least I could see them moving the 16 to base USB3 and the 16 Pro to the top level USB3.
 
Yep - my Kia is 10 years old and doesn’t support CarPlay at all, let alone wirelessly, so I rely on using a usb - lightning cable to connect my
14 Pro in iPod mode because while the stereo does also support Bluetooth audio it’s a very basic implementation which doesn’t even show track information. I think we are many years away from a portless iphone for this and also dfu recovery reasons - if an iOS update borked a portless phone how would you go about recovering it at home? The only portless device currently is the Apple Watch and last time I checked if an update fails and needs recovery on those you have to send them back to Apple.
Anker Roav Bluetooth/FM transmitter. What I use in my '14 Yukon. Run everything off the phone, no cables unless I need to charge the phone and then the cable is doing power only.
 
I travel a lot and wireless charging is a pain in the ass. Takes too long when you quickly want to charge your phone before stepping out again and obviously nearly impossible to use to charge in the backpack. Also makes my phone turn hot. Can’t be good for its health
Agree. I love topping up my battery by putting the phone on flight mode, plugging in to a faster charger, boom an extra 15-25% added in less than than it takes to shower and get dressed.
 
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This is actually a good question. The A17 is capable of USB3 spec, whatever flavor it is, but what controller will the logic board have on it? They could bump the base phones to bottom level USB3 spec. That would make them faster than the 15s but still slower than the Pros. Course they could also bump the Pros to USB4 spec as well next year. At the least I could see them moving the 16 to base USB3 and the 16 Pro to the top level USB3.
Speculation: The entry level Vision Pro might just be a screen that you tether to an iPhone 15 Pro that has extensive USB-C features and high performance.

Apple are known to bread crumb as few features as are strictly necessary. I think there’s a strong financial motive behind USB-C port on the 15 Pro. 🤠🤑
 
I'm interested to know if next year if the iPhone 16 non Pro gets the full USB C 10Gbps speed when it gets the A17 processor or if the 'Pro' variant of the A17 is what allows for the full 10Gbps speed. If not related to that A17/ A17Pro is it limited by something else?
I predict that next year the 16s get USB 3.0 and the 16 Pros get Thunderbolt.
 
Switching to USB C and USB 3.1 will allow me to transfer more data faster with less problems. The switch will allow anyone to interchange cables with devices that aren’t even phones, let alone iPhones. It will allow the easy connection of external storage and external displays. Want to show a presentation on a large monitor? A laptop is not necessary. Just plug a standard cable into your phone. You are letting your hang up with a small, one-time cost get in the way of an ongoing long term benefit. Penny wise and pound foolish.
iPhone 15 doesn't have 3.1 controller. Pretty much the same speed as lightning. They don't even benefit from faster speeds. So pointless already.
Switching causes people to have to buy surplus cables of USB-C to replace their existing surplus lighting cables. Interchanging cables is not a serious issue.
Plenty of USB-C cables included in products only go 2.0 speeds. So not only do you have to replace lightning cables but also plenty of existing USB-C 2.0 cables that you use to connect external drives. Apple has shipped millions of products with USB-C 2.0 cables so those have to be replaced too.

Talk about foolishness.
 
my quality of life absolutely skyrockets with the switch to USB-C and 10 Gbps offload is, for me, earth shattering. It's the main reason I upgraded.

Wait until you realize you can do it faster via Airdrop before you get out of your car to go home. Also realize when you can start a transfer via AirDrop and not have to wait for it to finish before leaving the house.

AirDrop is superior in most file transfer cases.
 
iPhone 15 doesn't have 3.1. Pretty much the same speed.
Switching causes people to have to buy surplus cables of USB-C to replace their existing surplus lighting cables. Interchanging cables is not a serious issue.
Cables often are rated for 2.0 speeds. Plenty of USB-C cables included in products only go 2.0 speeds. So not only do you have to replace lightning cables but also plenty of existing USB-C 2.0 cables that you use to connect external drives. Apple has shipped millions of products with USB-C 2.0 cables so those have to be replaced too.

Talk about foolishness.
If someone didn't buy a USB 3 or faster cable for their external drive, they probably wont buy one for their phone. If someone did buy one for their drive, they can use it on their phone, and if they buy one for the phone they can use it with their drive.

I'm going to donate my surplus Lightning cables to places and people who can make use of them. If I can afford a thousand dollar phone, I can afford to replace a couple of cables.
 
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Wait until you realize you can do it faster via Airdrop before you get out of your car to go home. Also realize when you can start a transfer via AirDrop and not have to wait for it to finish before leaving the house.

AirDrop is superior in most file transfer cases.
Can’t airdrop directly to SSD though
 
USB 3.0 has been around since Snow Leopard and Apple is still building USB 2.0 into its processors? Why change a winning formula? Apple was slow to add USB 2.0 to its computers and just as sluggish to move over to USB 3.0, charging a premium price while giving you last decade's hardware

It appears you didn't read the story. Again... the base and lower cost iPhone 15 uses the previous generation A16 chip which is limited to USB 2.0 transfer rates. The iPhone 15 Pro/ProMax uses the new A17 chip which supports USB-C transfer rates.

Want more features, higher performance, etc? Simply pay for it and purchase the more costly iPhone 15 Pro/ProMax. You may be similarly shocked that works the same way with cars, computers, audio systems, TVs, refrigerators, computer displays, and on and on.

That's the way life is. Want better performance/quality/features when choosing products to purchase? Simply pay for it.

Don't need the better performance? Save some money and purchase the less expensive option.
 
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Wait until you realize you can do it faster via Airdrop before you get out of your car to go home. Also realize when you can start a transfer via AirDrop and not have to wait for it to finish before leaving the house.

AirDrop is superior in most file transfer cases.
Airdrop is great…if you value convenience over performance.

i dont. A lot of people don’t. We want performance. USB 3 gives it to us.
 
It appears you didn't read the story. Again... the base and lower cost iPhone 15 uses the previous generation A16 chip which is limited to USB 2.0 transfer rates. The iPhone 15 Pro/ProMax uses the new A17 chip which supports USB-C transfer rates.
I did read it and I'm not impressed that the flagship iP14,13,12 phones etc were still on USB 2.0 when cheaper phones from rivals had moved onto USB 3.0, which has been out for years. Clearly you are happy with that.
 
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iPhone 15 doesn't have 3.1 controller. Pretty much the same speed as lightning. They don't even benefit from faster speeds. So pointless already.
Switching causes people to have to buy surplus cables of USB-C to replace their existing surplus lighting cables. Interchanging cables is not a serious issue.
Plenty of USB-C cables included in products only go 2.0 speeds. So not only do you have to replace lightning cables but also plenty of existing USB-C 2.0 cables that you use to connect external drives. Apple has shipped millions of products with USB-C 2.0 cables so those have to be replaced too.

Talk about foolishness.
I have yet to see an external drive that does not come with an appropriate cable.

Yes, switching can mean buying new cables, but that change comes with varying benefits for different people. That really isn’t the civilization ending activity that you apparently think it is.
 
Wait until you realize you can do it faster via Airdrop before you get out of your car to go home. Also realize when you can start a transfer via AirDrop and not have to wait for it to finish before leaving the house.

AirDrop is superior in most file transfer cases.
Have you ever actually tried to AirDrop a 1 hour 4K video? I stick to using a cable.
 
Because USB-C wasn't theirs to restrict like they can do with Lightning. But what they can and ultimately did was to choose a lower transfer spec. We know it's USB2.0 data transfer speeds, we just have to wait for tests to show us if it's just limited to transfer or does power delivery is also gimped at USB2.0.

USB-C mostly deals with the connector, not transfer speed and charging.
Transfer speed and high-powered charging are defined in other standards.
 
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I did read it and I'm not impressed that the flagship iP14,13,12 phones etc were still on USB 2.0 when cheaper phones from rivals had moved onto USB 3.0, which has been out for years. Clearly you are happy with that.

"Clearly you are happy with that"

I'm extremely happy with Wifi 6 for my iPhone 14PM. The iPhone 15 with Wifi 6E will be even better.


"I'm not impressed that the flagship iP14,13,12 phones etc were still on USB 2.0 when cheaper phones from rivals had moved onto USB 3.0,"

Sounds like you'll find happiness with rival and cheaper phones. Go for it! Will you do it?
 
For ~$50, you can make your carplay wireless.
This is true. I have one. I don’t like using it, though, especially when playing music. I’ve had three types of these and all of them suffer from terrible ~2 second lag. Most of the time you don’t care about lag, but I get complaints when passengers are trying to follow the iTunes lyrics, which scroll by before the audio gets there. The other drawback is that they can sometimes take several minutes to load CarPlay. The wireless CarPlay dongle literature say they boot up in 25 seconds or so, but most of the time they take far, far longer.

My wife’s car has built-in wireless CarPlay and it doesn’t seem to suffer from the same lags. It’s better if you have native wireless CarPlay built into the car rather than wired. But if wired is all you have, you either cable up or use one of those third party dongles.
 
No. Apple was preparing a MFI certification for UBS C on iPhones, then Mr Breton sent a letter to Tim Cook based on those rumors. You can find about the letter very easily with a search.

Like you said yourself, it was all based on an unsubstantiated rumour. It doesn’t seem fair to conclude that Apple was indeed planning something based on this.
 
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