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Look inside the USB c port. Do you see a little bar sticking out, that is the breakable part
Why haven't I ever had one break (since my first and last Samsung piece of junk in 2010)?
A friend got a new high end 2019 Samsung phone. The week it came, we were at the beach. I offered my USB battery. They used a USB-C to USB-C charge cable to connect it. They passed the phone-and-battery to me and I grabbed it by the cable , as I would with a lightning cable. The USB-C detached from the phone and the phone fell 3.5 feet onto the rocky sand. It immediately broke the rear glass. After that experience, I…
Although I do think that MagSafe offers better cord-trip protection, USB C wasn't nearly as bad as I expected it to be.
MagSafe also has a weird issue that magnetic or metallic dust/grit can get stuck in the socket! You can usually clean it out though.
Now I can finally throw away all of those perfectly usable lightning cables and buy a horde of new USB-C cables that do absolutely nothing to improve my experience. Thanks for that, EU.
Other than the iPhone and the ear pods, I can't think of a single Apple device that doesn't have USB-C. The Macs all have it, beats pro have it, homepod has it, even the Apple TV has a USB-C port. I'm sure the universe of people who only have those two devices and don't have friends that own literally any other devices will be distraught that they have to add a $5 cable to their next phone purchase, but I don't feel…
The keyboards and mice are still on lightning.
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> Now I just hope they don't institute some dumb program where it only talks to Apple devices or some crap. The behavior will be the same as it is on iPads, which have had USB-C for 5 years.
to be fair, not even all iPads with USB-C have the same behavior. (The fancier Pros are Thunderbolt/USB 4).
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Why, are they also forcing you to throw away your old iPhone?
The battery will, at some point, necessitate getting a new phone, yes. As will other innovation. I know this seemed like a really smart dig, but it’s not like it only affects one year of devices. Come on, now.
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in this case yes; however.... usb-c connections become unreliable over time. cables need jiggling and such. the protocol might be better, but the physical connector sucks. not as bad as d-sub connectors, but bad.
In the last couple of years I've had a Pixel 2, Pixel 3a and Pixel 6, all of them had/have issues with the USB-C port. Plus the general issues around what cables can do what. Basically these days unless it's a Google charger and a Google cable I have zero confidence that I'm able to do whatever I want to do. It's a real bummer.
Now I can finally throw away all of those perfectly usable lightning cables and buy a horde of new USB-C cables that do absolutely nothing to improve my experience. Thanks for that, EU.
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Oh, they will. Apple will cripple the port with some BS excuse about "security."
I can only assume you pick up the USB sticks that litter your office parking lot and plug them in? ...apples USB security already works on the iPad, and only allows charging until you authorize the device. And if you know anything about this stuff, that's better than other vendors.
I'm talking about Apple denying developers access to the USB port, the way they always have with the Lightning port and the iPod port before it.
They've even crippled Bluetooth.
I've had issues with my past 2 usb c phones. the female connector has a hidden male part in the phone. when you insert the cable incorrectly, it can damage that internal male part. it is much harder to replace that part then just getting a new cable. the lighting cable was a classic male connector to a classic female part
How do you "insert it incorrectly"? It's symmetrical and works in both possible orientations.