Does this mean Apple will add USB-C functionality beyond just charging? For example, connecting to hard drives.
Apple says iPhones will switch to USB-C chargers to comply with new EU law
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I was thinking the same about both connectors. And then I bought an iPhone. I never broke a USB-C connector nor socket in few years of heavy usage on few devices, but I needed to buy new lightning cable because the pins have worn out after less than a year of just connecting the cable to iphone.
I have a family member with a similar iPhone charging issue.
Toothpick. Clean port. That has saved almost every iPhone people bring me that’wont charge’.
Every other one Apple has fixed for free as some internal solder has failed.
But that was twice in about 50 cases.
(I do free/volunteer tech support for old peoples homes)
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#273I suspect it is harder to waterproof a usb-c jack.
should be easier or around the same.
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#274It's sad that it took legislation to make this happen, but I can see why. I worked in a pseudo-Apple-store during the height of the 30-pin dock connector and I sold so many cases, speaker docks, charging cables, and all sorts of weird accessories that were built for the 30-pin connector. Then Apple switched to Lightning. It was better in every. single. way. And yet people got burnt. There was so much hardware that wa…
> "they're always changing their cables". It's obviously not true, Last year Apple switched from USB-C charging to a new MagSafe charger on M1 Macbooks. USB-C was first introduced in 2018, moving away from the old MagSafe design. These are a very recent changes, so I'd say this still applies.
Thankfully they do still charge on the USB port but yes it does seem odd they didn’t just give customers another usbc port instead.
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USB-C will make sense forever now. Nobody will develop something else. That's not necessarily a bad thing, it is what it is.
USB-C might very well be the last wired connection standard, but I expect a port free iPhone within 10 years that charges via induction and has some way to do some data transfer by that as well.
Right, and they might switch the law to allow that at some point.
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#276It's sad that it took legislation to make this happen, but I can see why. I worked in a pseudo-Apple-store during the height of the 30-pin dock connector and I sold so many cases, speaker docks, charging cables, and all sorts of weird accessories that were built for the 30-pin connector. Then Apple switched to Lightning. It was better in every. single. way. And yet people got burnt. There was so much hardware that wa…
> "they're always changing their cables". It's obviously not true, Last year Apple switched from USB-C charging to a new MagSafe charger on M1 Macbooks. USB-C was first introduced in 2018, moving away from the old MagSafe design. These are a very recent changes, so I'd say this still applies.
You can use either, or both at the same time.
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#277What happens if I plug my USB-C iPhone into my 100W USB-C charging cord for my laptop? Does the phone charge? Does it get hot? Does the brick get hot?
I already plug my iphone lightning cable to 100W USB-C charging block for my laptop. USB-C doesn't send full power unless the device wants it.
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> It's sad that it took legislation to make this happen, but I can see why. Did it? Apple moved their last Lightning product (outside of iPhones & their accessories) earlier this week. It seemed pretty clear they were going all USB-C, just on their own timeline. It was already widely expected next year. I bet it would have happened within 2 years if the law wasn’t passed. If all the iPads, or even most of them, were…
> Did it? Apple moved their last Lightning product (outside of iPhones & their accessories) earlier this week. Apple’s Mac peripheral accessories (keyboard, trackpad, mouse) are still all Lightning.
As are their AirPods (unfortunately). I just bought the new AirPods Pro and will attempt to keep them for a while if I can prevent my golden retriever from eating them this time, so it seems I'll have to keep some lightning cables around.
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> The contrast between "force Apple to stop adhering to legacy standards, USB-C is the future!!!" and "gubmint hands off muh 8-pin aux connectors!!!" is interesting. Both of these are the same stance to me, "existing industry standards appear to suffice, why foist something different on the market?" I don't think governments are behind a lot of these changes so that last bit is probably exaggeration but seems misplac…
> existing industry standards appear to suffice reminder: lightning came first , because the industry couldn't get its shit together and agree on a successor to micro-b, despite acknowledgement of the shortcomings. lightning is the pcie 8-pin in this comparison: you may not like the technical limitations it imposes, but, it works well enough that you can build products around it. So why impose a change to The Current…
Proprietary anything is bad. Apple is bad because it uses proprietary hardware. There is no "Apple standard." There isn't a "brand war" either. USB isn't a "brand," it's an industry consortium that designs connectors that anyone can use. Apple is bad and it should feel bad.