It's so tiring that Apple is artificially segmenting the market using technical limitations like USB2. Apple is not a technology company but a pathetic parody of an entity that exists to rob their customers blind.
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iPhone 16 USB-C Still Limited to USB 2, No Change for 16 Pro Either
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It is how I back up my iphone, don‘t trust icloud.
Me, all the time. This is the reason I'm not upgrading. Not worth getting rid of my SE3 if the sync speed is the same.
Me. I have a 25 year old music library and a large photo and video library. I backup to my Mac because I’m not buying cloud storage for no reason and I’m keeping local copies as I don’t trust cloud storage anyway.
Just because you relinquish ownership of all your media and your monthly paycheque to your tech overlords, doesn’t mean everyone else does too.
Apple innovation is just breathtaking of late
Isn't the title of this thread incorrect ? The iP16 Pro/PM support USB 3 while the regular iP16/Plus is limited to USB 2.
If you’re someone that knows the difference between USB 2 and 3, you probably should be buying the Pro model….
For normal people out there who never plug anything other than the charger into their phone , the regular iPhone is fine
For normal people out there who never plug anything other than the charger into their phone , the regular iPhone is fine
Apple has been phoning in iPhone updates for the past 5 years or so. New leadership is needed. They're out of ideas.
USB 3 is a 2008 technology. It's not a pro feature. Neither is a 120hz refresh rate display. Apple's penny pinching with these things is really doing long-term damage to the brand.
These aren't road apples like the core solo Mac mini, these are cutbacks on their hero product. "Dat ecosystem doe" is the only reason they're able to do this, in an actual competitive marketplace these phones would be DOA.
I wiked the wainbow. Fankyou Tim. But why does your wainbow onwy have 1-2-3-4-5-6! cowors? Weal wainbows have 7, wike my age. So pwetty pwease stop being so patwonising.
Part of me goes: it has to be more expensive to make 2 different version of the port.
How many iPhone users do you think are affected by this? 0.00000001%?
This is how the iPhone 11 and iPhone 12 camera layout should have been, limit the bump to the cameras, while the diagonal arrangement on iPhone 13, iPhone 14, iPhone 15 justifies the square-like camera bump...
By the time the non-Pro models get USB 3.x the Pro models will be on USB 4.x or faster...
By the time the non-Pro models get USB 3.x the Pro models will be on USB 4.x or faster...
I’m not sure how anything you said contradicts my post. I’m not sure how most of it even relates. Maybe you quoted the wrong post in your reply?
All I was talking about is most iPhone users don’t know what USB 2 or 3 is. They don’t care because they don’t use this feature. I’m not sure how this relates to when USB 3 was invented or something about the Mac mini. I’m really confused on that one.
How do you know what most iPhone users know about USB 2 or 3?
How do you know what they care about?
Survey says?
Talking to people. You know that whole go out, have friends and talk to them. It’s pretty cool and you should try it.
So dozens out of billions.
Gotta love that sample size, lol.
You should try not making stuff up.
Next.
Me. It's the best and fastest way to transfer photos from my iPhone to my Mac.
Which is why the AirPods Max surprisingly did not support lossless audio
pretty obvious this was going to happen even before iPhones switched to USB-C
Apple gave the minority thinking USB-C = faster USB a big HA HA! last year already and this isn't going to change since their goal is to make you pay for the higher margin Pros
Apple gave the minority thinking USB-C = faster USB a big HA HA! last year already and this isn't going to change since their goal is to make you pay for the higher margin Pros
Pixel, OnePlus (top tier models) and Samsung Galaxy S series all have USB 3.2 10 gbps Type C ports.
Apple knows very well that the moment they include 120hz screens and USB 3.2 Type C ports for their dirt tier iPhones, I WILL STOP BUYING THEIR OVERPRICED PRO MODELS and get their dirt tier non pro models. So these 2 features will never land on non pro models. Upselling is so hard here almost on “Desperate” levels.
Yeah, not making anything up. Dozens is enough to know what people do. I don’t need a scientific study. Although I bet Apple uses metrics on this and they also determined it was not necessary. I bet their numbers are more than dozens.
I guess you’ll be buying the Pro model or waiting a few extra minutes for the slower USB 2. I can’t imagine photos taking terribly long. Now if you’re talking about videos, I would not want to transfer them on USB 2 🤦♂️
As a 20+ year Apple fanatic willing to buy pretty much most Apple products, I'm completely underwhelmed at recent yearly updates. I seem to be spending less and less on Apple products every year simply because they no longer provide any real value to upgrade. I literally have money in hand to buy upgrades but I just don't have that same excitement about any features they are pushing. You would think Apple's most important customer is the one they already have. Give me a reason to give you my money. I've bought one Apple TV this year...that's it!
