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.

  • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    USB-C was finalized 2 years later so the decade of Lighting e-waste is still on Apple for holding out as long as they did.

    Maybe instead of designing a whole new Lightning connector they should have been pioneers and been one of the first to make a USB-C phone.

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      No it wasn’t. The very first version of USB-C was standardized 2 years later. It didn’t get to feature parity with lightning until Thunderbolt support was added at the 5 year mark.

      • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
        142·
        1 year ago

        If they kept the 30-pin for another year or two they could have been one of the first with USB-C and it would have been good for two decades or more and we wouldn’t be having this discussion

        • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          Are you seriously complaining that they didn’t wait for a tech that hadn’t even been announced or released yet? Do they have a time machine or crystal balls now in Cupertino?

            • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              1 year ago

              Again, this was after Lightning was already designed, released, and had millions of accessories made for it. It doesn’t change the point at all.

          • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
            111·
            1 year ago

            If only they had the foresight to predict the needs of their customers a year or two in the future.

            Or maybe they just went with Lightning because they could take a cut of every product using their proprietary connector.

              • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
                71·
                1 year ago

                Buddy, standard connectors are in the works way earlier than you think. Manufacturers know about the next standard ahead of time and often give feedback. It’s all on Apple wanting to sell you a proprietary connector so you can only buy from them, or you can’t switch phones to android and still use your accessories.

              • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
                4·
                1 year ago

                Apple literally contributed to the design of USB-C, it’s not as if they had no idea it existed or it was some sort of reactionary design in response to Lightning

      • wavebeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 year ago

        Your downvote count is insane, because you’re right. People on lemmy, just like on reddit, use android and like to feel superior for hating on Apple. That’s basically all it comes down to. Apple introduced a new connector a decade ago, called their shot, and usb-c caught up during that time. Now that Apple is fulfilling their plans everyone who was never going to buy an iPhone anyway is shouting “what took you so long?”

        • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          This isn’t about IOS being superior to Android. This is about Apple doing anti-consumer practices and getting called out for it.

          The downvote count is insane because they are talking out of their arse and drinking the Apple propaganda.

          USB-C “caught up” with lightning a decade ago.

          If it was such an awesome connector, they would still also use it in their MacBooks.

          If Apple really cared about their customers getting the better connector, they would have changed it on the Iphone at the same time they did on the MacBooks.

          But they didn’t, because Iphone is their cash cow, so they wanted to scrape as much money from their users as possible, until the EU forced them to change.