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
      14·
      9 months 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

        • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          9 months 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
              8·
              9 months 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
              5·
              9 months 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

      • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months 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
            1·
            9 months 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.

    • wavebeam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months 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·
        9 months 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.