It's rare for people to run out of juice in the case IMO.
Apple Watch has a hidden port for diagnostic purposes. Seems to work out fine.
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It's rare for people to run out of juice in the case IMO.
Apple Watch has a hidden port for diagnostic purposes. Seems to work out fine.
Switching over to portless for iPhone and AirPods makes more sense than switching to USB-C temporarily before going portless.
That doesn't happen with other phone/devices manufacturers. You know why? Because none use proprietary port, they all go for the standard USBs.
Apple designed this port and introduced it in 2012, by that time USB C (2014) didn't exist yet so you can argue it was a better option than mini/micro USB. BUT, it only reaches USB 2.0 transfer speeds (protocol from 2000) even when USB 3.0 was introduced 4 years prior to lighting port, plenty of time to use it in their design. And they could've ditched the lighting in 2015 for USB C (when they introduced their first USB C Mac), but they chose to keep using an outdated port and standard for 11 years, to keep making proprietary cables and accessories by millions to keep milking customers with their cables and licenses for cable manufacturers. Just because money.
So don't come now like EU is the problem with e-waste and environment, when it's Apple greed for money the cause. But hey they now use recycled aluminum and put some solar panels in their camps so they are super green!
If recycling lightning and USB-C costs the environment nothing, then choosing a port to standardize makes no difference to the environment.
Actually you have no idea what you're talking about. This thing is worse than just sticking with lightning until things go portless.
And those billions can continue to charge future lightning devices, making the switch to USB-C pointless since things will eventually go portless anyways.
My heart goes out to all of those old yellow fraying lighting cables that will perish..
Uh oh
Yeah, that's right. We should all wait until we go portless...
Ah yes, because USB-C offers so many new features over lightning for an AirPods Case.
Anecdotal experience.
Also forgetting portless will be a thing. USB-C is an unnecessary temporary step before portless.
If it's still going to be used for the years to come, it would be pointless to create a sudden demand for billions of new USB-C cables for the next 5 years until the iPhone goes portless.
You failed to understand that point, seriously. No wonder I have to repeat myself 😂
Don't see the relevance.
1st gen iPad Pros had lightning ports transferring at USB 3.0 speeds actually. If lightning speed was essential for iPhones, Apple would have brought it over and updated the cables. But you know why they didn't? Because that would create a disaster for people who have 10 lightning cables because they'll be throwing it away for the newer USB3.0 lightning cables which is basically happening with USB-C right now.
Reuse existing cables for charge, transfer stuff wirelessly. Update the cable when iPhone goes portless. It's more environmentally friendly this way.
Didn't really catch anything new from your post. Was there something other than a roll eyes emoji you want to add to the discussion?Yeah, that's right. We should all wait until we go portless...
They're not pointless just because they don't work with your new phone. They still work with billions of iPhones out there. I don't know how old your current phone is but most likely you will sell it or pass it down since it's still functioning. How about including those dozens!
of lightning cables so the new owner can use them?
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One port to rule them all
Until another dumb eu directive that is
Until another dumb eu directive that is
People are not going to run out and trash their perfectly working AirPods just for a new case with usb c. This is for people in the market for a new pair of AirPods.
You do realise iPhone will not be the only device out there using USB-C. It's ubiquitous. A lot of people already have a lot of USB-C cables. There's no sudden demand for billions of new cables. If iPhone stayed on Lightning there would be just as many new Lightning cables made to go with those phones. Oh and nobody knows if or when the iPhone will really go portless, that's a very old rumour that may or may not turn out to be true, eventually.
packing into a box, print a useless label, put in a gas car driving to UPS, sorted into a UPS truck that's headed to a plane that uses tons of jet fuel, onto another truck to a UPS center, sorted to another gas guzzling truck.
wow, very environmentally friendly.
A lot of people already have lightning cables. Best to reuse and advocate Apple to stop including cables in the box. But now Apple won't exclude the cable because of the port change.
There will absolutely be a sudden demand. Agree to disagree.
Except Apple could have easily excluded the cable from the box just like they did with the headphones and chargers because Apple knows most of returning customers already have lightning cables.
iPhone will not go portless any time soon, and good so, there is not a single
Benefit with going portless other then maybe water protection and design, I don’t want an iPhone without a connection, Wireless charging will
Never be as good as cable at least in the next 10 years, you loose so
Much energy in heat and so much slower transfer speeds, you just don’t have any fast connectors so you just don’t know. I have everything on 40gbs and then I have a super slow iPhone we’re it takes hours to transfer things of just makes no sense at all.
By that logic, ban MacBook MagSafe port too.
Oh but you don't want to do that huh because you like that port.