It can be a very important feature but not more important than the ecosystem.
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iPhone 15 Pro Rumored to Feature Thunderbolt Port With Significant Advantage Over Lightning
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You do know the UK voted to LEAVE the EU and are now their own United Kingdom right? Ironically this rule won’t apply to them!
Or the iPhone Pro's will get a M-chip, and the standard phones will get an A-series chip.
We were all surprised when the iPad got the M1, now M2. It wouldn't surprise me if the iPhone Pro's got a binned M3 chip that used less power on the next gen TSMC fab process.
No way Apple goes from lightning to port less. I could be wrong, but I imagine they go USB-C/Thunderbolt for at least a few years. Having no ports on a device with the video/photo capturing abilities just makes no sense. I think until wireless transfer speeds get substantially faster and there is a universal protocol (iPhone can wireless transfer to non-Apple products) then I see whatever port is the standard being on the iPhone from here out.
People need to realize that USB-C != TB3 and also that USB-C is only, unfortunately, a form factor and we could well see slower speeds compared to other phones with USB-C. Depends what Apple puts behind that in terms of HW to be honest. And considering how Apple manages its supply chain efficiency, not holding my breath on this one.
I could care less about transfer speeds. It’s the universal cable to charge all of my products that I care about.
If they really use Thunderbolt 3 interface and chipset, that started shipping in late 2015/early 2016 to be honest. USB 3.2 is then from 2018/2019. USB-C on its own doesn't mean much to be honest.
You might not care about transfer speeds but do you care about speed of charging, safety of charging and how long your battery will last? As there's more to it then the form factor. That's definitely a benefit to users but it's not a holy grail and that's why the EU legislation has quite a few holes.
So you’re going to upgrade simpler for the usb c? Even if the iPhone 15 was exactly the same phone spec for spec you’d buy just for that? If so that’s fine, everyone has what’s important to them and it sounds like it makes sense for you, but most non-techies will probe be grumbling that Apple changed the charger “yet again” (ignoring the reality that it’s been like 10 years since the last change).
What I’m getting at is the port is not going to be the flagship feature that Apple focuses on to move product. It will be one bullet point, maybe a minute or two during the presentation…but then the actual selling points Apple wants to focus on.
I’m not saying it’s not going to make life easier, I was responding specifically to a poster who was speculating that this somehow rise to a main selling point.
Wireless is the future. Really hope with get some upgrades to Airdrop and MagSafe
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I 100% agree with this. Could not have said it better. 👏
Ultra Price and Ultra Wait. Bet the wait will be until the 16 releases if you don't submit within 0.00000000000001s of orders opening
No I hope they give turtle speed USB C to EU and India, but the thunder one to the rest of the world
You make it sound like Apple is the only company with a marketing department. Anyone with a half decent marketing department would market new features as “revolutionary” and “The best thing since sliced bread,” regardless of how over the feature is. It’s just basic common sense sales tactics.
It’d be useful in transferring 100s of GB of ProRes video to iPads or computers, thus the iPhone is the thunderbolt device for the larger device. It’d be on the receiving end, so no need for it to supply power. It wouldn’t use thunderbolt accessories, it’d be the thunderbolt accessory.
But they could upgrade the lightning port on iPhones. There's even some Android phones on 2.0. But also some on 3.#
I care a lot about transfer speeds. I do most of my iOS updates via my Mac and only backup to my Mac, not to iCloud. I also transfer photos and videos over a cable frequently. It's a real pain if you ever need to move some files from a Windows computer over to an iPhone, last time I had to use a USB-C flash drive to copy the files to my iPad and then AirDrop it to iPhone.
But they didn't. I think they tried with some iPad Pro and it didn't run very stable.
It also makes little sense to put in a lot of effort into further R&D when there's the USB3/c system that you can just integrate. And having a new phone outperform my Wii U in terms of transfer speed would be nice.
Lightning 16-pin receptacle supports USB 3.0 (now 3.2 Gen 1), although it is included with only handful iPad Pro models and useful only for a camera adapter.
ha, that would be better. ”The law states USB C, which supports USB 2.0 speeds, that’s what you get, since the rest of the world isn't mandating USB, we’ll give them thunderbolt 4.”
Stupid question time: is there any technical reason why it'll be USB 2 and not 3+? Or is it just Apple just ******** on base models in order to upsell to higher end models?