Other Will iPhone 14 be USB 2.0? Probably, since Cook is mediocre.

[Homme]

The iPhone 17e was announced today. According to the tech specs on Apple's official website, it's only USB 2.0:

iPhone 17e - Technical Specifications

View all technical specifications for iPhone 17e.

www.apple.com

Here we are in 2026, which is 19 years after the iPhone 1 was announced, and the iPhone 17e has the exact same extremely slow USB 2.0 data transfer speeds that the iPhone 1 had. That is Tim Cook-style "innovation."

Now that the MacBook Neo is out with USB 2.0 I am dying for your next post regarding this 😁😁

 

[I7guy]

The iPhone 17e was announced today. According to the tech specs on Apple's official website, it's only USB 2.0:

iPhone 17e - Technical Specifications

View all technical specifications for iPhone 17e.

www.apple.com

Here we are in 2026, which is 19 years after the iPhone 1 was announced, and the iPhone 17e has the exact same extremely slow USB 2.0 data transfer speeds that the iPhone 1 had. That is Tim Cook-style "innovation."

This iPhone and new MacBook may not be you. They are more budget friendly and have less cutting edge tech.

 

[ThomasJL]

Now that the MacBook Neo is out with USB 2.0 I am dying for your next post regarding this 😁😁

The MacBook Neo has two USB ports, one of which is USB 3.2, which is around 21 times faster than USB 2.0.

This iPhone and new MacBook may not be you. They are more budget friendly and have less cutting edge tech.

I fully understand and support budget-friendly phones and computers having less cutting edge tech. However, while it’s OK to use older and slower tech, it has to be reasonable.

The latest USB is USB 4. It would be unreasonable to expect USB 4 on budget iPhones, but it would be reasonable to expect USB 4 on all other iPhone models due to their significantly higher prices.

The inclusion of the old and slow USB 3.2 tech in the newly-released MacBook Neo is reasonable. The first USB 3.2 products were released around 12 years ago in 2014.

The inclusion of the extremely old and extremely slow USB 2.0 in the newly-released iPhone 17e is unreasonable. The first USB 2.0 products were released around 25 years ago—a quarter century ago—in 2001.

Around 12 year old tech versus around 25 year old tech!

Let’s do the math on speeds and time to show how clueless and mediocre Tim Cook is:

USB 3.2 is 10Gpbs.
USB 2.0 is 480Mbps (around 21 times slower).
The MacBook Neo and the iPhone 17e both have a maximum storage capacity of 512GB.

To transfer 512GB of data (such as during a backup or restore), it would take this long:
Around 7 minutes over USB 3.2
Around 2 hours 25 minutes over USB 2.0.

Around 7 minutes versus around 2 hours 25 minutes!

For people transferring much smaller amounts of data, if a backup or restore took around 1 minute over USB 3.2, it would take around 21 minutes over USB 2.0.

Around 1 minute versus around 21 minutes!

How clueless and mediocre is Cook to not realize and/or care about how enormous of a difference that is?

 

[mrochester]

The MacBook Neo has two USB ports, one of which is USB 3.2, which is around 21 times faster than USB 2.0.


I fully understand and support budget friendly phones and computers having less cutting edge tech. However, while it’s OK to use older and slower tech, it has to be reasonable.

The latest USB is USB 4. It would be unreasonable to expect USB 4 on budget iPhones, but it would be reasonable to expect USB 4 on all other iPhone models due to their significantly higher prices.

The inclusion of the old and slow USB 3.2 tech in the newly-released MacBook Neo is reasonable. The first USB 3.2 products were released around 12 years ago in 2014.

The inclusion of the extremely old and extremely slow USB 2.0 in the newly-released iPhone 17e is unreasonable. The first USB 2.0 products were first released around 25 years ago (a quarter-century ago) in 2001.

Let’s do the math on that to show how clueless and mediocre Tim Cook is:

USB 3.2 is 10Gpbs.
USB 2.0 is 480Mbps (around 21 times slower).
The MacBook Neo and the iPhone 17e both have a maximum storage capacity of 512GB.

To transfer 512GB of data (such as during a backup or restore), it would take this long:
Around 7 minutes over USB 3.2
Around 2 hours 25 minutes over USB 2.0.

Around 7 minutes versus around 2 hours 25 minutes!

For people transferring much smaller amounts of data, if a backup or restore took around 1 minute over USB 3.2, it would take around 21 minutes over USB 2.0.

Around 1 minute versus around 21 minutes!

Cook supporters should quit making excuses for his unreasonable product decisions like including USB 2.0, which is just blatant corporate greed.

Good job most people don’t transfer data like that between a computer and a phone then isn’t it!

Just like we’ve been saying this entire time 🤣

 

[Abazigal]

The iPhone 17e was announced today. According to the tech specs on Apple's official website, it's only USB 2.0:

iPhone 17e - Technical Specifications

View all technical specifications for iPhone 17e.

www.apple.com

Here we are in 2026, which is 19 years after the iPhone 1 was announced, and the iPhone 17e has the exact same extremely slow USB 2.0 data transfer speeds that the iPhone 1 had. That is Tim Cook-style "innovation."

It is what it is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯