It's also for consumer convenience.
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Upcoming USB-C AirPods Pro Not Expected to Include Any Other Hardware Changes
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It's also for consumer convenience.
Those factories would be releasing those same emissions no matter what. I'm all for reducing these types of emissions but with fossil fuel power causing close to 90% of all emissions, I'll save my ire for them.
Of course.
They shouldn't touch the design of any product. But if they did, they should have at least done it before a billion devices adopted something.
Well it's more with USB-C. When iPhone goes portless, that's extra billions of USB-C cables going into the drawer not being used at all vs just keeping the lightning port and removing the cable from the box.
What exactly are you suggesting that Apple did wrong?In good time. There's probably more inventory to sell off of Lightning-based Mac accessories. I suspect no new ones will be made with Lightning. So as inventories thin out, USB-C versions will be announced. Apple knows how to maximize every cent. They spend like every penny counts but charge like we consumers should "think (VERY) different" about that.
What exactly are you suggesting that Apple should have done instead?
What are you suggesting is wrong with the slogan?
One account of the directive from the EU parliament says:
...suggesting that a wireless-only device wouldn't be affected
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Great news! They will promise not to nerf the active noise cancellation with a firmware update for a whole two months after launch.
If I had to guess, when they update the iMacs they’ll switch those to USB-C. The iMac color-matched accessories probably make up most of the SKUs for those items.
They should have mandated only one OS for all phones. It would be easier to switch phones brands and you can keep your apps.
I suspect Apple will do a clean sweep up date.
The only thing I wonder is for the stock still in stores. The poor unsuspecting people who get screwed out of the same money for a lighting one (they won’t go on sale).
Yep, we’re all going to switch to Windows Phone running on unsold Zunes! 😂
You’ll be able to use the Apple return policy to bring back a lightning device if the USB-C ones come out within two weeks. In either case, it’s not the worst thing that can happen, if you are “stuck” with a device with lightning.
So are they gonna release just the AirPods and AirPods Pro cases with USB-C?
Not that it really matters much, because of Qi/MagSafe charging…
Not that it really matters much, because of Qi/MagSafe charging…
90% guaranteed it will be on the bottom. That is an on-purpose design decision to avoid people trying to use it corded just because the box contains the mouse and a cord.
The other 10% possibility is that they put the port on the front, so people at least have something new to complain about on the internet.
They should have mandated one size of phone to cut down on the number of cases people have to buy.
It is unlikely to have much impact for them. At worse, they will be slightly inconvenienced just as we all are now.
Since I am still on the OG Airpod Pro model, this will be a good upgrade if true. While I love and respect the timing and what Lighting brought to us, I am over it now as effectively everything Apple, PC, my cameras, other devices are now USB-C.
More like AirPods sold from certain date moving forward will sport usb-c, plus the cases that are available for sale separately. It will probably just be a single bullet point on the slide, assuming nothing else changes about them. This is purely for people with existing AirPods who desire usb-c on their charging cases.
I’m also fine with the lightning case of my APP2 for now. Someday, I’ll have a USB-C iPhone and a USB-C case with the third generation AirPods Pro using the same cable, but today it wouldn’t be convenient. The only Apple device I currently have with a USB-C port is my third generation Apple TV 4K which rarely needs to get charged with the braided USB-C to USB-C cable I had to buy.
Long overdue. I know black wouldn’t stick out as well as white to “advertise” them, but the new color option would be appreciated by a lot of people.
Apple could have done this last year, just release the AirPods Pro 2 with USB-C from day one.