• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year 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

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        1 year 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.

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        1 year 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.

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        1 year ago

        You mean the Apple that provided more than 20% of the engineering force that developed USBC?

        Or the Apple that released the first USBC laptop to market?

        That Apple?

        • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          Or the apple that fought against USB-C for their phones since basically forever and now implemented it with USB 2? Yes, this one.