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.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
      65·
      1 year ago

      I know you didn’t mean it that way, but that is actually the best solution from a production side, which Cook is. Just change one line in the process. Instead of a lightning port, it’s a usbc port.

      It’s a phone. I don’t know why everyone wants 40 Gbps. Not that you’ll ever get unless you pony up for a $100 cable.

      With all that said, it was hilarious to see them talk about usb 2 and how 3 is 20x faster because that shit was straight out of 20 years ago.

      • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
        101·
        1 year ago

        I know you’re not the same person they replied to, but this is “arguing out of both sides of your mouth.”

        It can’t be that “Apple carefully plans out everything years in advance so it had to be USB-C anyway due to the difficulty in adapting a new port” and also that “they do a simple one line change in the production run to swap to USB-C” because these two things are diametrically opposed to one another.

        • Turun@feddit.deEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Hey, maybe the production process and internal documentation is so shit that it does in fact take several years in advance to plan out a simple swap of the connector XD

        • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Never said they carefully planned out usb c. All I said was that changing the physical port is the cheapest and most cost effective way of doing it. No need to change the entire module.

          It’s all right there. So no idea man

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.oneEnglish
            21·
            1 year ago

            I acknowledged that you weren’t the person making the initial claim right at the beginning of my comment, but the flow of the discussion here is:

            A) Initial claim: USB-C was coming anyway because it takes years to integrate this stuff into new devices

            B) Counter-argument: If it took them years to integrate this port into the device then why does it appear to be slapped together with shit data speed?

            C) Your counter counter-argument: it appears slapped together because it’s a simple one line change in the production process and is very simple

            A and C can’t be true because they’re diametrically opposed. If B and C are true then A is false.

      • Graphine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think it’s more that USB 2 speeds at the bare minimum are a really trash value for an $800 phone. I get what you mean, as this will push the “pro” consumers who absolutely must have 4K ProRes RAW video/photo transfers to buy the Pro models, but for real. It is shitty from a consumer perspective regardless.

        • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          You get the same speeds on the 15 as lightning. Same power delivery. The Pro got bumped up to usb 3.0. Nothing ground breaking but fast enough to record video to an external source.

          The rest is the internet being the internet. Not sure why everyone expected TB4 40 Gbps speeds on a phone 🤷‍♂️