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.

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          1 year ago

          I’ll say this. For how much shit Steve Jobs gets, regardless of his personal life, he would never allow this shit to happen. That crazy bastard is responsible for getting rid of the floppy drive and pushing the industry towards USB 1.0 because he believed enough in it. That we would benefit.

          You can find old forum posts of the original iMac launch and see how surprised and somewhat upset people are at this revelation. Now look where we are.

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            Pushed the industry towards USB before inevitably abandoning it for their proprietary lightning charger.

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              You do realize lightning was conceptualized AFTER his death?

              Not only that, but the industry standard at the time was Micro USB. So either a really good, reversible charger for the time, or a piece of shit cable that dies after 4 months. Take your pick.

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      1 year ago

      ok now im really curious, what are you plugging into your CELL PHONE that requires 10 gigabit?

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        I had this question as well. I don’t think I’ve physically plugged my iPhone 11 in for data/photo/video syncing since I got it. Everything is super fast over wifi, there’s no reason for a cord. Only thing I use the port for is charging and sometimes audio. I’d probably have been fine if they dropped the port, but I’m happy they kept it for now.

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          Hey I’m with you, don’t really need faster wired data speeds.

          But I guess Apple has changed their goals if they are leaving out common functionality available in all other flagship devices simply because it’s not strictly necessary 🤷

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              Fair, but most midrange phones have at least USB3 as well, no?

              I don’t actually know for certain, but I can’t imagine why they wouldn’t.

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                1 year ago

                My uneducated guess is this: the iPhone 15 uses the same A16 chip as the 14 Pro did, to more easily produce it at scale and cost effectively. The 14 Pro had Lightning and therefore 2.0 speeds. The 15 kept the 2.0 speed because the A16 couldn’t (readily?) be reengineered to support a 3.0 connector.

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        1 year ago

        The Pro version does have it.

        Everything to push people into buying even more expensive shit, right?

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      1 year ago

      The base 15 has the processor from the 14 pro, which does not have the USB 3.0 controller on it.

      Just like the base 14 had the processor from the 13 pro …and the base 13 had the processor from the 12 pro

      you get the idea.