EU mandated an USB type conector, which can be 2.0 or thunderbolt 3.2.
Apple is the total culprit of this crap.
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iPhone 15 USB-C Cables Again Said to Be Limited to USB 2.0 Transfer Speeds
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Apple is the total culprit of this crap.
This might be it... Most reasonable post in the entire thread...
... of USB 2.0 from 2001 in a top tier phone is just absurd. It's a meme itself at this point.
I feel like $1200 should get me a braided, color-matching thunderbolt cable. It should also buy me a 30w/60w power adapter.
Apple has been pushing prores video/photo taking as a selling point, and those huge files are not suitable to be stored on the cloud. Therefore, we need the cable to offload them to our Mac at an acceptable speed.
Apple has been pushing prores video/photo taking as a selling point, and those huge files are not suitable to be stored on the cloud. Therefore, we need the cable to offload them to our Mac at an acceptable speed.
Well, maybe we wouldn’t all be as reliant on iCloud if we had the ability to sync 128GB or > iPhones to computers in a few minutes or seconds instead of the abysmally slow speeds Apple has hampered iPhone owners with for over a decade?
You’re phrasing this as if consumers have actively opted for iCloud over >2.0 speeds via wired transfer when buying an iPhone has only ever offered 2.0 regardless of model or storage capacity.
It’s like a hypothetical scenario of grocery story in a small town in the middle of nowhere only selling orange juice without pulp for a decade and then saying consumers buying lots of orange juice without pulp means that nobody would buy orange juice with pulp or any other type of fruit juice. But the grocery store has no data on this and thus no argument as they have never offered anything else but orange juice without pulp.
The reality is that consumers love choices and are more inclined to chose what offers the bigger quantity and appears to be the better value, regardless of whether they actually make use of the better specs or larger quantity they end up getting.
If there had been a single year where iPhones were sold with both a <2.0 and a >2.0 option and nobody bought the better than 2.0 option then you’d have an argument that is more than hypothetical.
You also couldn’t successfully argue that nobody wants an iPhone SE with 6.1” display until Apple actually puts one out and consumers chose one that’s <6.1“ over the 6.1” one.
In many rural areas, cable transfer speeds are still much faster and more practical than the cloud. Also, transferring photos from a camera typically requires a cable. My aging parents are affected by both and would very much appreciate faster transfer speeds.
The article says 480MBps. The real speed of data transmission on USB 2.0 is 480Mbps. I think whoever writes the articles doesn’t realize the difference? Maybe many people don’t. But there are 8 bits in a byte. So the true speed of USB 2.0 is 1/8th what the article has written. That is a major problem in 2023. It has been ridiculous for years with iPhones. I don’t know why Apple doesn’t want anyone to access data at higher speeds but there has to be a reason…
wow. lets step back in time. and not offer what everyone else offers.
YEP. your getting your moneys worth on your more expensive by $200 iPhone 15 this year.
What a deal.
YEP. your getting your moneys worth on your more expensive by $200 iPhone 15 this year.
What a deal.
Do you have a source for the iPhone 15 going up $200? There were rumors about the Pro costing more.
Classic Tim.
Apple is rotting at the core These days.
Apple is rotting at the core These days.
Which wouldn't have even been necessary if Apple had done the right thing in the first place.
Half of your points are actually issues of Apple's making, the others are a consequence of Apple's actions. Yet you blame the EU?
Confused, the article makes it sound like it's just the cable that the iPhone 15 regular gets shorted on….though I'm gathering the cable data indicates the port itself will be limited as well..?
Otherwise, big deal, just get a better cable for wired data transfers (as annoying as that is, I already dug in on that once apple stopped including the charging blocks anyway to get the newer updated blocks or cables every upgrade now 🤷♂️).
Otherwise, big deal, just get a better cable for wired data transfers (as annoying as that is, I already dug in on that once apple stopped including the charging blocks anyway to get the newer updated blocks or cables every upgrade now 🤷♂️).
Do you mean the base iPad? That's the only one that is 2.0.
Outside of that, none of them are.
iPad Pro - Thunderbolt 3 (USB 4) at 40 Gbps
iPad Air - USB 3.1g2 at 10 Gbps
iPad mini - USB 3.1g1 at 5 Gbps
Macbooks were the first device ever to use USB-C in 2015, and have always been at least Thunderbolt 3.
I know why: it's because if Tim Cook includes cheaper USB 2.0 parts in the phones instead of Thunderbolt 3 or Thunderbolt 4, him and his beloved shareholders will make even greater profits. Cook doesn't give a damn about customers. He cares about maximizing the amount of money made. And what's pathetic is that so many people on this forum support him for doing so. If you happen to be interested in seeing proof of such people, just take a look at the thread from last year in the link below:
Will iPhone 14 be USB 2.0? Probably, since Cook is mediocre.
Apple computers have had USB 3.0 since mid-2012. That is 10 years ago. Despite that, Tim Cook, being the mediocre beancounter MBA suit that he is, has still not done anything to upgrade the connectivity on the latest iPhones. The latest iPhones use the same USB 2.0 connectivity that shipped with...
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This is the same type of cable you can buy at IKEA for 2,50 EUR (including tax). Supporting USB 3 (talking about the cable, not the device), would of course increase the cost for Apple somewhat. On the scale they are operating at, cheaping out on the cable will save them hundreds of millions. All in all a predictable decision by Apple's management. Shareholders will be very happy.
EU didn’t mandate apple to stick with usb 2.0 speeds. Apple did this to their valued (😂) customers.
You can have cheap android phones with decent transfer speeds but it seems apple can’t figure out how to do this on a 1.000$ device.
Inductive charging (let‘s just call it for what it is) is a massive waste of energy and creates excess heat, and also reduces the lifespan of batteries. Try to charge your phone in summer like that and stop being surprised when battery health just grinds itself down.
I do. Do you know how long it takes to transfer 40 gigs of data wirelessly compared to a cable?
Obviously, Apple should stop including charging cables with their iPhones altogether. This way, consumers are free to purchase the desired length / speed of their choice without creating additional waste. 
And Why is a €1000 device reusing (or should I say recycling) an old chip rather than putting the latest available as it has been practice for years? Again, just greed, pure and simple.
Crazy thing about the Pro/non/Pro delineation is it’s not like regular iPhone are cheap, they are still freaking expensive, and they pull a stunt like that.
If they are going to make a 2TB phone capable of shooting ProRAW then you me hope it has Thunderbolt or whatever. Maybe limited to iPhone Ultra?
Yeah I get your point, I’d also be happier having the option to transfer data via cable with a proper speed, but (for me) it’s just a nice addition. And my comment was more about effectiveness of EU regulations in preventing e-waste production. Apple’s decision to provide users with USB 2.0 cables will not make any difference, because most people will use those cables for charging, if not iPhones then any other electronic device like flashlights, bicycle lights, wireless speakers etc. To be honest, I have so much usb-c cables, so Apple can even remove these from the box. I don’t care. The most important thing is to get rid of that ridiculous lightning port.
I do too. I have 250GB of ALAC music on my iPhone. Takes forever to transfer.
I’d use FLAC but of course Apple Music doesn’t support that standard either 🙄 at least there are tools to convert losslessly.