I think the USB-C cable will make little to no difference for the majority of Apple users out there. I hate how the EU has coerced Apple to make this change.
iPhone 15’s shift to USB-C
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#92Finally, less charging cables to carry while traveling.
just gotta replace all the old lightning cables along the way. sadly, I won't be able to stop carrying something to charge my AirPods using usb-c, yet
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#93Related ongoing thread:
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37485290
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#94I think the USB-C cable will make little to no difference for the majority of Apple users out there. I hate how the EU has coerced Apple to make this change.
I think the USB-C cable will make a big difference for me. I love how the EU has coerced Apple to make this change.
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#95Why on Earth would you make a phone out of Titanium?
I mean, yes, hard, shiny, expensive... but just seems so wasteful.
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
In terms of hardware, yes. In terms of software, no. Last time I tried that with an iPad you did not get a true windowed DE. It was okay if you wanted one big app and one sidebar app and a lot of context switching.
For better or worse, iPadOS is moving more in that direction for sure. https://www.theverge.com/23787477/apple-ipados-17-stage-mana...
oh nice. Hopefully a few iterations from now it'll be really good. I just chose a Surface as my personal laptop last year because of this making ipad less than a perfect all-rounder.
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#97I hope the EU presses Apple to adopt other standards as well. (e.g., file format. It's ridiculous that you can't just drag and drop a picture from your photos library as a Gmail attachment because the format would be HEIC).
I’m pretty sure there’s a setting in ios as to the default file format for photos? And jpeg is an option?
Just checked - it’s under “camera - formats - most compatible”.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seeing that when the EU first wanted this they wanted to force everyone to use micro USB, what happens when someone wants to invent a better standard?
The legislation gets amended. Simple. Ideally, the legislation gets amended to that there can be a review process every X amount of years.
First there will be a committee to look into the change which will cost millions of tax-payer dollars and several years of meetings. And then nothing will come of it.
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#99As a computer enthusiast I don’t want a desktop in my pocket. I want big heavy rigs, that simply have to be big to do the kind of computing I want to do. I’m not looking for a thin client.
As another computer enthusiast, why not both? I have a pretty beefy rig, but I’d also like to leverage the full compute on my iphone/ipad. If the software wasn’t locked down, the hardware would be more than competitive with the laptop my job provides me. And having an ipad as a full compute device would have been perfect for my university days; the small programming assignments I had would have been perfect to develop on that form factor (ipad + small bluetooth keyboard, together thinner than most laptops).
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#100Apple would cannibalize their computer and iPad sales if they were supporting the thin client model like Samsung DeX. See how they already avoid cannibalization of the iPhone business by preventing the iPad to make phone calls. They protect their product lines from each other. As much as I like to see such a feature, I don’t think Apple will ever give it to us.
> See how they already avoid cannibalization of the iPhone business by preventing the iPad to make phone calls.
I think you're a bit out of touch with Apple's design approach. Giving an ability to make phone calls from iPad, like taking photos from it, was already not ridiculous enough. Also, you'd need to have a bag with yourself all the time to carry that slap size device.