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USB-C confirmed for the iPhone 15 in new leaked images - Macworld (www.macworld.com)

submitted 1 year ago by aranym@lemmy.name to c/technology@beehaw.org

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We’ve known that the iPhone is switching to USB-C for a while now, but there was always a possibility that Apple would stick with Lightning for one more year. Based on the latest leaked images, however, Apple is all-in on USB-C for the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro models, with USB-C parts for the iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, and iPhone 15 Pro Max all shown in a leaked image by X user fix Apple.

With the switch to USB-C, nearly all of Apple’s devices will have adopted the new standard, with only AirPods, Mac accessories, and the iPhone SE remaining aside from older iPhones and the 9th-gen iPad.

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[–] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I really cannot tell if you're joking or not...

They released lightning about 3 years before the first USB-C phones

3 and a half years before the first usb c phones showed up in china. It was 4 years until it showed up anywhere else.

so they could have worked with the standard,

They literally did work together to create the standard.

delay the connector switch a bit,

You seriously have to be joking. Stop working on getting rid of their shit 30 pin connector that everyone had been complaining about for literally a decade? Why in the world would they stop development for something that was never guaranteed to actually make it out of a standards body? Standards don't just pop up at a set time. They had no clue USB Type-C would succeed or if it did, how long it would take. Not only that, but it's not like they just started developing lightning in 2012. They had to have been developing it for several years, along with the phones to go with it. This is honestly the most ridiculous suggestion I think I've seen in this thread.

They could even have released the first USB-C phone if they’re so keen on being “innovative”.

... they were innovative. They released the first symmetrical connector for a phone, ~4 years before anyone else. Theirs was (and still is) thinner and more robust than other phone connectors. You're literally just trying to rewrite history.

That would have save their users from 10 years of incompatible connectors.

dude.. like.. are you seriously joking? why in the world do you think this?

But Apple never cared about standards, on the contrary they choose lock-in over standards whenever they can.

... this is where you clearly reveal that you are ignorant on this topic. Apple (and every tech giant) collaborates on standards all the time. Please. seriously. Go look at any standard and you will find apple, google, facebook, etc. on the standards body.

You might go 'oh iMessage'. Well apple did try to create a standard for iMessage. Carriers didn't want it

Just because you believe all the apple hate doesn't mean it's true. Just like believing that Google sells your data doesn't mean it's true. Sometimes you have to research stuff yourself.