Oh blah blah. It IS ridiculous that Apple hasn’t given at least the iPhone “Pro” the usb-c connector. If anything, all “Pro” models should have it. The iPad Pros have it for transferring data etc. So should the iPhone “Pro” models… & yes, the Air Pod ”Pros” as well. It just makes sense. It might not matter to the average consumer. But it does to pro users. And if Apple is going to charge Pro Prices, they should cater to this segment. Sorry.
You tried downloading a decent length movie filmed in high resolution from your iPhone via lightning? FFS, lightning is dead, time to move on. They only stick to it because it is proprietary and they can make more profits from it.
What segment/demographics are you specifically referring to?
Simpler, and with the faster 15W wireless recharge, it'd be perfect. Although I'd settle at 7.5W
Yes, you’ll be giving your beloved users on MacRumors what they want. Everyone else doesn’t care! 😂
And wireless charging my iPhone 12 mini while navigating heats it up to the point where it warns me about high temps.
They weren't slow when in 2016 they suddenly said, y'all have to use USB-C on your MacBooks now. Not even a period where they include both -C and older ports. They dumped the clutch.
Yes, USB-C sucks, but it doesn't matter with iPhones cause most of the time you just want to charge it. Whatever spec you accidentally use, it'll charge.
An MFi Lightning cable costs at least $15 when a USB one, or even a bootleg Lightning, costs $1.50. It's obvious why people don't trust Apple on this. If they actually wanted to keep Lightning for the convenience of users, they could be good custodians of that standard and lower the royalties to something fair.
That sounds like Lightning. It's a very complex cable designed to handle a lot, but I've never used it for anything but charging my phone or occasionally transferring data (at USB 2.0 speeds that are slower than the original iPod which had FireWire).
What is better with lightning? To me it is a no-brainer. Lightning may be more widespread where you live, but that is not gonna last long, even if Apple sticks to it for iPhones and accessories. Every other manufacturer use USB-C and iPhones + accessories do not have more than 50% market share anywhere. I mean, everything from consoles, to battery banks, laptops, phones etc etc come with USB-C these days. Even my electric toothbrush.
Of course it's a luxury problem to have, but I travel a lot. I usually bring a headset, windows laptop, MacBook, wireless keyboard, power bank and an iPhone. Everything can be charged with USB-C except my iPhone, so I have to bring a separate cable only for my phone even though the other 5 brands managed to use the same connector.
It’s possible they’ll come out with a new charging case that supports USB-C without changing anything else, they’ve done that before with magsafe
iPhone represents < 20% of global smartphone sales, and about half of US sales.
1. "Sales" does not remotely correspond to devices-in-use. Your data is way off. iPhone dominates the entire smartphone world. The ones being actually used by people.
Because you don't know enough about the topic to do so. You have this illusion about where USB-C stands and its driven by over exposure to tech blogs. A modicum of real world experience would show you that it hasn't even eclipsed USB-A yet, let alone Lightning. Or even micro-USB.
Yeah, but the rate of breakage isn't even close. Lightning is known to be the most fragile cable by far. Personally I've broken 6 while babying them, and about 0 non-Lightning cables while abusing them. My wife is nearly obsessive about keeping her stuff neat and pristine, and even her cable broke from normal usage.
