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Kuo: Only iPhone 15 Pro Models Will Support Higher-Speed Data Transfers With USB-C Upgrade
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Because preventing all non-Pro owners from making encrypted local backups to their own computer would be a ridiculously bad idea. Maybe if Apple could first be convinced to implement end-to-end iCloud backups, but good luck with getting that past the feds. Yes this cataclysmic limitation would only affect a small percentage of users, but that doesn’t make it an acceptable notion.
It’s not unlikely. iPhone 15 and 15 Plus are very likely at this point to get the 10th Gen iPad treatment. USB-C port, 2.0 speeds.
It really depends on what kind of I/O chip Apple uses. It may be able to support USB Certified 5Gbps without the extra cost of Thunderbolt 3/USB Certified 10Gbps connectivity.
They are by segmenting the market and offering products with various features at various price points.
Considering that is likely a tiny percentage of users, it's not surprising; and I say this as someone who regularly loaded up an iPad Pro with GB's of video to watch while flying and traveling.
The EU only defined a charging standard, data transfer is not part of the standard any companies are free to implement whatever they want.
If Apple went wireless they could still implement a proprietary plug data port, as a (highly unlikely) example.
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Apple did not want to be told what to do. There is no intention from the EU to have a high performance port that none of Apples competitors can in any way match. A thunderbolt port is an Apple only device. That’s not in the sprint of the EU order,which is designed to make everyone the same. But it is also not something that the EU can do anything about.
Apple does not pay for thunderbolt. They are an original developer with intel and have a lifetime license. With the new Apple Silicone design they make their own thunderbolt controller.
Show me a non-Apple phone that runs iOS, and I'll buy it.
The problem is that I don't want a phone OS produced by an advertising company. I used Windows Phone until I literally couldn't.
If Apple continues pushing the ad business, I may bail out, but I'm not sure what I'd switch to. Windows isn't viable, and all of the other de-googled Android variants are little better than a dumb phone.
But they may not want Thunderbolt connectivity with the "regular" iPhone 15 models with USB Type C due to possible power requirements for Thunderbolt usage. Going with USB-IF Certified 5Gbps connectivity will still be a big improvement over the 480 Mbps connectivity of Lightning.
Yet another example of Apple finding a lame way to make you upgrade to “Pro”, saving $2 per item in the process…
That said, is anyone still using the cable to actually transfer data to/from an iPhone in 2023?? I remember the scissor-cuts-the-cable icon and it probably was around Steve’s death time
That said, is anyone still using the cable to actually transfer data to/from an iPhone in 2023?? I remember the scissor-cuts-the-cable icon and it probably was around Steve’s death time
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This.
He screw me with the "iPhone 7 is going to be all-screen with TouchID under the display" and then again with "the iPad mini 6 will be the same design as the iPad Mini 5". **** that guy.
E.g. I don't have any USB-C devices so I don't have any USB-C cable. But I have enough lightning cables. With the discontinuation of lightning there will be less and less accessories in next years and it will be harder and harder to find someone who could lend you a cable if you forgot yours and you need one.
OK there is always innovation and a change in standards. But USB-C is from 2016 and it's no natural innovation but forced externally by EU.
Why and how can we see a next gen if no company will invest a penny into a new technology because they don't know if this will be accepted and allowed by politicians as a new standard?
You know you can just order a dozen cables for less than a dollar each from Aliexpress and then distribute them where you usually need them (car, house, workplace,..). That way, you always have a cable on hand.
Most modern stuff uses USB-C anyway, from the iPad over the Switch to the powerbanks.
Welcome to the world where all competitors have been eliminated and no one appears to give two hoots.