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
    142·
    10 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

    • Zoolander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      10 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
          13·
          10 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.

      • Rootiest@lemm.eeEnglish
        121·
        10 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.

        • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
          213·
          10 months ago

          They did have the foresight, it’s why they started working on Lightning and has it ready for production release in 2012. From what I could find, the initial press release around USB-C was in 2013, with initial submission in 2012.

          I’m not going to spend days reaching this, but it seems possible that USB-C was a response to Lightning based on that timeline, so since where playing the “if” and “maybe” game, which I’m pretty much done with now. Neither of us have inside information and this is all hypothetical nonsense.

          • Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            81·
            10 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·
            10 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