Not a better connector. A MUCH better connector for a mobile device. A half dozen devices and over a million miles of travel and I have never had even one cable or port failure.
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That's funny, because there's no hard evidence at all to back up this claim. USB-C cables can last just as long as a Lightning cable if well maintained. The only issue would be needing to probably clean out your port every now and then, but that has nothing to do with durability. Not to mention, Lightning cables are heavily limited by Apple. And sure, they'll probably heavily limit their USB-C ports on their phones too, but even if they do, it won't be because of the cable. It would be because they themselves chose to do so. All around, USB-C is just the better cable.
(Also, just because the lightning cable may FEEL like it's in tighter, it doesn't change anything related to the USB-C connections that work perfectly as well)
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Apple could have just used the industry standard since day one instead of an ultimately dead end connector.
No doubt. But honestly, I bet they’re already working on the iPhone 20. At least in conception.
We can get high resolution photos of NASA flying helicopters on Mars, everyone here on earth has a gigapixel camera in their pocket, yet the leakers all seem to use digital cameras from 2002. Who knows what the hell this is.. it's such poor quality it could be anything.
The dynamic island outline in the photo looks smaller than the current one? Less wide by quite a bit?
I want that so much.😋 Healthy food and lifestyle is not delicious. 🙁"Double down on secrecy!" - Tim Cook
This is what he meant by "Double Down"...
I would trade them in for free if there was a guarantee none of it would go in a landfill or any body of water, and would be recycled responsibly.
Really gotta say I’m disappointed in USB-C as the connector. Lightning is much more robust.
USB-C on the phone has that tiny flat piece in the middle. That’s a huge point of weakness. Lightning is open all around.
Lightning never loses grip. If your phone falls, you can pull it back up from the cord for cryin out loud. USB-C weakens over time.
To Apple’s detriment, they crippled the speed of lightning, making it laughably slow. Hence in part the ruling of the EU
I have not been happy with Apple of late, and part of me really hopes they keep the speed of USB-C down to usb 2.0 speeds. Go for broke. Really cement how anti consumer they have become.
USB-C on the phone has that tiny flat piece in the middle. That’s a huge point of weakness. Lightning is open all around.
Lightning never loses grip. If your phone falls, you can pull it back up from the cord for cryin out loud. USB-C weakens over time.
To Apple’s detriment, they crippled the speed of lightning, making it laughably slow. Hence in part the ruling of the EU
I have not been happy with Apple of late, and part of me really hopes they keep the speed of USB-C down to usb 2.0 speeds. Go for broke. Really cement how anti consumer they have become.
Obviously you don’t understand that a one off transition is less impactful than keeping producing hundreds of millions of cables each year that eventually would end up in a landfill. This is a good change and there is no excuse for apple not having done it before being forced to do so by the European union. Thankfully the EU intervened and stopped this nonsense.
Haha ok, Enron put up thousands of satellites and sent a car to Mars too haha
Needs no help as they’re already intended to go the waste bin on a regular basis anyway.
No cable is meant to last forever. At least with one standard I don’t have to spend money on Lightning when USB-C is used for almost everything else.
It was introduced as the “modern connector for the next decade” in 2012. Apple just kept their word.
No, they will make a lighting to USB-C dongle. It will come in 3 colors for $29
I agree with that, I always preferred lightening to usb c. But standardisation far outweighs the supposed durability benefits of lightening (I never have a usb c connector or port fail on me).