Apple finally put USB-C in the new iPhone, but it's inexplicably limited to 23-year-old USB 2.0 speeds
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Apple has dragged the iPhone kicking and screaming into the USB-C era, but with an embarrassingly antiquated USB protocol.
  • @gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    -19•2 years ago

    Apple was forced by the EU to stop using their old and worse connector

    So they’re complying, but they’re purposefully limiting the less expensive phone as a malicious compliance to that

    Pretty simple really

    • HeartyBeast
      12•2 years ago

      So lightning cables offer transfer rates of 480Mb/s - USB 2.0 offers 625Mb/s. You are cross that they swapped out Lightning for USB on the main models and use USB 3 as a differentiator in the Pro models. Fair enough, but that’s not ‘malicious’. It’s not even malicious compliance.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
      9•2 years ago

      Lightning connectors are definitely worse than USB-C, but when they were introduced the alternative was micro USB which is objectively worse than Lightning cables.

      Of course, with wireless charging I haven’t used an actual cable in five years so it doesn’t matter that much to me.