• egeres@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Really apple? And they did all that mother nature bullshit with octavia spencer while it was europe who forced them to use a universal connector and stop polluting the world with useless pathetic cables

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    1 year ago

    A $5 Pen drive transfers data faster. Some day, Apple will be able to figure how to do this in a multi hundred dollar phone. Need more MBAs.

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    1 year ago

    so very apple to punish it’s own users because they have too many old components they need to use up, but if you’re paying for PRO you get actual 2023 modern USB.

    so very, very apple.

  • doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    One last little ‘f you for making us do this’

    Whatever, still better than lightning.

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      1 year ago

      It’s funny (or sad I guess) that the current generation of laptops are back on mag chargers (I forget what they’re called) instead of USB C. There was never a time when both iPhones and MacBooks used USB C charging.

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      1 year ago

      they don’t care because apple punishes the poors at every opportunity anyway. soldered on ram & ssd’s on their laptops for fucks sake

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        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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          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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          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

          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.

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      1 year ago

      If the aim of a company is to maximize profits then every company in Apple’s stead would do the same thing. Not defending it but that’s the world we created.

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      More like standard capitalism. The usb c connectors are not slower then the lightning connectors so its not like they made it worse. They simply refused to make it better.

      A bit like Nvidia continuing to maken better gpu chips but refusing to have them release with a more VRAM.

      If course in a way, all for profit-companies are malicious. Extracting surplus value from workers and such.

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    1 year ago

    The fact that the Pro (or any device) supports a newer USB protocol doesn’t necessarily mean that it will be able to take advantage of the full speed. It might just be as slow as the non Pro with USB 2.0.

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      iPhone 15 Pro tech specs page: “USB 3 (up to 10Gb/s)” with a footnote that says “USB 3 cable with 10Gb/s speed required.”

      A regular need for high-speed data transfers is legitimately a “pro” use case. You need the Pro model and you need to buy a thick, stiff high-speed cable.

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        Most Androids still only get USB2.0, but not the ones that are in the price range of the iPhone.

        Edit: Feels like I’m back on Reddit with people not reading my comment, I just said that although most units of Android phones are budget to mid-range, mine being a mid-range (Poco F3), Android phones anywhere near the range of an iPhone in Cost is USB 3.0+

      • Muddybulldog@mylemmy.win
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        USB-C is a connector and, by itself, says nothing about the protocol in use. That’s the important part.

  • Destroyer of Worlds 3000@sh.itjust.works
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    Apple:

    We had two children. Conner (yay! so handsome!!😍) and…erm, ugh…Billy. We don’t play favorites! Conner gets driven to private school, plays lacrosse, and has a tutor. Billy takes the bus to public school across town, has a sack lunch, and we broke his legs when he learned to walk because he was smaller than Conner.

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    Frankly, who even uses the USB port on their phone for data transfers unless it’s an emergency? I just stream media from my NAS using Navidrome and Jellyfin, use Syncthing to back up my photos and sync files I need, and mount the SMB shares I need to access. The eMMC and SD cards are slower than USB 3 speeds, anyway. Most SD cards don’t even max out USB 2.

    The only sensible real life use case for USB 3 for phones would be external monitors.