Apple forced to ditch lightning charger in new iPhone
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Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger::Apple confirms new iPhone 15 will have a common USB-C charging port after EU forces it into the change.

  • RootiestEnglish
    31•9 months ago

    as every accessory with a lightning port just became e-waste. I guess Mother Nature didn’t see that.

    I think it’s interesting that you see this as USB-C’s fault.

    If Apple had stuck to a standard connector they would have been on usb-c in a year or two anyway and none of that e-waste would exist.

    Or if they went back on their word and switched to usb-c from lightning after a couple years, there would also be way less Lightning e-waste. What do you think happens to all those Lightning accessories when someone switches from iPhone to a different device?

    Apple’s proprietary Lightning connector is responsible for the e-waste, not USB-C or regulators.

    These regulations will stop companies like Apple making proprietary connectors purely for profit that generate all the e-waste in the first place.

    • @Petter1English
      -24•9 months ago

      Lol, a cable is barely e waste. The power Adapter is where the e waste is, and those usb A blocks can easily still be used, even if you only have usb-C cables lying around. For very little money, you can buy an Adapter from usb-A to C and you can still use them. I don’t get the eWaste argument on copper cables…

      • RootiestEnglish
        18•9 months ago

        USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

        Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

        • ZoolanderEnglish
          -1•9 months ago

          No it wasn’t. The very first version of USB-C was standardized 2 years later. It didn’t get to feature parity with lightning until Thunderbolt support was added at the 5 year mark.

          • RootiestEnglish
            12•9 months ago

            If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more and we wouldn’t be having this discussion

            • ZoolanderEnglish
              -1•9 months ago

              Are you seriously complaining that they didn’t wait for a tech that hadn’t even been announced or released yet? Do they have a time machine or crystal balls now in Cupertino?

              • RootiestEnglish
                4•9 months ago

                They were well aware of it, even contributed to the design

                • ZoolanderEnglish
                  -2•9 months ago

                  Again, this was after Lightning was already designed, released, and had millions of accessories made for it. It doesn’t change the point at all.

              • RootiestEnglish
                11•9 months ago

                If only they had the foresight to predict the needs of their customers a year or two in the future.

                Or maybe they just went with Lightning because they could take a cut of every product using their proprietary connector.

                  • @Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    7•9 months ago

                    Buddy, standard connectors are in the works way earlier than you think. Manufacturers know about the next standard ahead of time and often give feedback. It’s all on Apple wanting to sell you a proprietary connector so you can only buy from them, or you can’t switch phones to android and still use your accessories.

                  • RootiestEnglish
                    5•9 months ago

                    Apple literally contributed to the design of USB-C, it’s not as if they had no idea it existed or it was some sort of reactionary design in response to Lightning

          • @wavebeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
            -3•9 months ago

            Your downvote count is insane, because you’re right. People on lemmy, just like on reddit, use android and like to feel superior for hating on Apple. That’s basically all it comes down to. Apple introduced a new connector a decade ago, called their shot, and usb-c caught up during that time. Now that Apple is fulfilling their plans everyone who was never going to buy an iPhone anyway is shouting “what took you so long?”

            • @Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
              3•9 months ago

              This isn’t about IOS being superior to Android. This is about Apple doing anti-consumer practices and getting called out for it.

              The downvote count is insane because they are talking out of their arse and drinking the Apple propaganda.

              USB-C “caught up” with lightning a decade ago.

              If it was such an awesome connector, they would still also use it in their MacBooks.

              If Apple really cared about their customers getting the better connector, they would have changed it on the Iphone at the same time they did on the MacBooks.

              But they didn’t, because Iphone is their cash cow, so they wanted to scrape as much money from their users as possible, until the EU forced them to change.

      • @Elektrotechnik@feddit.deEnglish
        12•9 months ago

        “Hence the removal of the headphone jack.”

        What does that have to do with USB vs Lightning? Besides, Lightning to Headphone Jack adapters as well as lightning airpods use a DAC inside the cable.

        Boy, some of you are really drinking the Apple koolaid.