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.
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So funny seeing Apple fans eat up their PR. Ooh it was Apple’s plan all along? They did it because it’s more environmentally friendly? Yeah right and it only coincides the very same year EU is enforcing every manufacturer to go USB-C route. No one ever stopped to think if Apple is so environmentally friendly why were they fighting right to repair act.
And don’t give me that “iPad had USB-C” speech. If lightning port could handle higher currents, iPad would have gone that route as well. USB has been standard for many years now but they have pushed so many different ports instead of going USB route. They don’t care about anything else other than milking a bit more money from their users.
In my opinion, Apple’s choice to reduce the number and variety of ports on their devices in order to sell more dongles was where mobile device enshitification began in earnest. Now my phone just spys on me and vomits ads constantly and I can’t even plug in my fucking headphones.
They take ages to adopt great features that have existed on Android devices for years, and yet are THE leader of what corners to cut in the industry.
“iPad had USB-C”
Any argument they make for iPads having USB-C is moot because they are still selling Lightning iPads.
That too!
For me, nothing could ever possibly top Apple’s rejection of strain relievers on their cables. It’s absolutely the perfect blend of their overrated design sense with their unerring corporate instinct for planned obsolescence.
Also let us not forget Apple is the only laptop manufacturer whose laptops have failing SATA cables. I am yet to run into any laptop with drive cables failing.
Sata cables? There aren’t sata cables in MacBooks and haven’t been for like a decade.
Indeed. And yet I have never mentioned anything about what age laptops I was talking about. Then again, Apple was also only manufacturer with unibody laptop whose two parts unglued when you used your laptop for anything more intensive because they designed air flow in such a way so that hot air blows on “unibody” glued part. It’s just comedy all around.
Actually, Apple supports the right to repair law now: https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/23/23843506/apple-california-right-to-repair-sb-244
They saw the the writing on the wall, and turned colours as soon as they saw they were fighiting a loosing battle.
Like any populist leader, they have just seen which way the crowd is moving, ran to the front and pretended that’s what they were going to do all along.
I want to say that people like you falling for this is mind blowing, but it actually just seems to be a rather depressing part of human nature. I’ll never understand why people show such loyalty to a company that only cares about how much money they can extract from your pockets.
Only when they can find a way to make money from it.
Ye no, i will only say they support it the moment their devices isnt made to not be repaired and have dark patterns all over them
Everyday just makes me love the EU more and more.
For real, babe.
Good job EU, screw you Apple
Honestly, Apple still are being assholes assholes and - either via firmware or software - are limiting transfer speeds of the standard non-Pro iPhone 15’s USB-C connector down from 10gb/s to 480mb/s (Lightning cable speeds) (scroll down to the “Charging and Expansion” section to see for yourselves).
The EU should hit them with a fine or ban EU sales of the 15 non-Pro model for skirting the law.
That’s disgusting. Knowing for some that would be a dealbreaker to upgrade to the pro.
The 15 uses an older chip that was designed for iPhones with lighting cables limited to USB 2. So it’s unlikely the hardware is there for USB 3/4 speeds. But it’s not unfeasible to add a dedicated chip for faster USB speeds.
Where as the pro model uses a new chipset. Designed for the 15 pro and likely the 16 non-pro. This has on due USB 3. It would be short sighted to not include it here.
Both phones would have very fast WiFi, I imagine that’s the use case for 90%+ of users.
Three cheers for the EU! 🇪🇺
NOOOOOOO! This goes against their narrative that they chose to do it! How dare you!
The only thing Apple chose themselves was placing an artificial limit on the port.
No one will ever miss you
Literally the only ‘new’ thing with the 15
It’s cold in here.
Has hell frozen over?!?
They’re just going to try to make one that’s ever so slightly better, and then patent it again
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Good. Fucking lightning with it’s fucking USB 2.0-ass interface.
And they still managed to cripple it with only 10 Gbps. Not even the “Pro” has USB4.
good headline, apple was “forced”
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