I’ve got 4 around the house/car and three are wrapped in electrical tape. You must not charge or move them at all. They are flimsy.
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iPhone Sticking With Lightning Port Over USB-C for 'Foreseeable Future'
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I want to unplug my Apple headphones and plug them into my 16 inch MacBook Pro without adaptors. Such a bad design.
no, compared to the overall quarterly revenue, it's peanuts.
think about the ramifications if Apple did switch to USB-C. more people would buy magsafe accessories (since they're switching anyways), more people would switch over from Android, more people would buy Apple branded USB-C cables. if Apple being greedy is your thesis, switching to USB-C would make Apple a lot more money than keeping lightning.
Ok, I have seen the 0.5% number mentioned here. How much do you spend on third-party stuff with a Lightning port? I'd be surprised if that is even 10% of what people spend on iPhones. The latter have a gross margin of about 35%. If Apple earns 100 billion dollars from iPhones that is 35 billion dollars in gross margin. With a third-party Lightning market of 10%, ie, 10 billion dollars, from which Apple gets 0.5%, that is 50 million dollars. In comparison to 35 billion, 50 million is a rounding error.
Apple has always played it this way. To postpone and stagger features to make money.
Do you go through a lot of Lightning cables or do you go through a lot of Apple-branded Lightning cables? Point being, in my experience it is the cable part that breaks, in my mind, too easily on Apple Lightning cables, not the plug part. In other words, using a higher quality cable material (eg, a braided one), Lightning cables can last very long.
As iPhones get more and more powerfull, having the option to use it with a UBC-C hub and a monitor or other accessories (ie. pro camera) would be a nice addition.
Ok, how many third-party products with a Lightning port have I bought over the years? Two, that is $6 from my purchases, compared to thousands of dollars I've spend on iPhones and iPads over the years.
The cable? Or the Lightning connector?
I wonder if magsafe becomes a replacement for the Smart Connector. Apple goes back to the striped apple logo where the strips are individual electrical contacts
What's failing? The cable? Or the Lightning connector?
I can speak from experience here, since I use devices with both ports for my work. My iPad Pro 9.7‘s lightning connector wore out over time to the point now where it won’t make reliable contact unless you push and hold on the cable connector. Yes, I keep the port clean and I even keep a rubber cap on it when in the field. I retired that iPad for this reason.
My USB-C devices see just as much use and none have experienced any issues with that connector.
And the AirPods and Beats ones break the Bluetooth standard to get around its flaws.The other explanation as to why Apple removed the 3.5mm headphone jack.
For people who want ear/headphones, this forces them to either
(1) buy wired ear/headphones with lightning connector from Apple or MFi certified ones, or
(2) buy wireless earphones... most of which will likely be a variant of Apple's AirPods or something from their Beats line.
In either case, Apple win$.
There's a reason almost nobody used BT headphones while they had the jack.
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*facepalm*
Apple cares more about their MFi certification program than they do about customers' enjoyment of their products.
"It just works" is gone forever. USB-C is the universal port. It's the only logical choice, if the goal is for consumers to be able to conveniently use their products.
Sticking with Lighting is extremely consumer-hostile.
Apple cares more about their MFi certification program than they do about customers' enjoyment of their products.
"It just works" is gone forever. USB-C is the universal port. It's the only logical choice, if the goal is for consumers to be able to conveniently use their products.
Sticking with Lighting is extremely consumer-hostile.
I agree, it sucks. I don't use Bluetooth. Just never expected a new car's tech not to become outdated quickly. I'm perfectly content with only connecting audio to my car; idk what else I'd want. Even wired CarPlay was annoying whenever I tried it, too complicated for something that's 99% just serving as an aux + charging port.
It's not just cable sales but control. Apple controls a proprietary standard that billions of people use. They won't give that up even if USB-C is a lot better, which it is.
So…
Instead of simply grabbing my iPhone at home to type up a message while I am doing whatever I am doing at my then current location, I am going to walk to my office, hook it up to a docking station, pair it up with a keyboard & mouse, launch the Messages app and send my message there. Oh wait, I will also have to return to the office to read the response.
Even better: I will have to worry about how ALL apps are scaled when the iPhone is hooked up to a 4K monitor via a docking station and I will also ensure that I complain that none of my streaming apps are working when the iPhone is docked due to copyright restrictions.
Let’s make the change to USB-C overnight. Makes total sense. While we are at it, let’s also throw an SD card slot in there AND manufacture a Magsafe external HDD wallet for the iPhone because I have heard magnets and external storages go great hand to hand. I am fully on board, anyone else with me on this?!
I tried Apple Car Play on a rental car once and thought was way too distracting and cumbersome, but now that I have the latest version in my own car, I've really come to like it.
Lightening is rubbish. I have black on contacts on all my connectors and cables. Sometimes I have flip them over to get am connection. Most are Apple products. When will we get USB-C which is much more robust!
Anything USB has been trash since inception, and USB-C is no exception. I’m happy they are keeping their Lightning connector. Every USB I’ve ever had started having issues a short time later. The USB ports on my computer are so worn out after a year I don’t even use them no more because of the constant lost connections between my devices and the motherboard.
I mean, you don't have to use a dock. The iPad already supports all of the functionality describes, that doesn't force people to stop using them as tablets.
Send me a link please. I can't buy them for under about $6.99 in my area, for the absolute cheapest garbage.