This is why companies like Apple are malicious.
Or because the base iPhone 15 uses last yearās Pro chip which didnāt have a USB3 controller.
I had a very quick check and I think iPads use an external chip for USB 3 - and there may just not have been space on the iPhoneās logic board for that. I think youād have to judge it next year - since the base models seem to be using last yearās pro chips - if the base model doesnāt support 3.1 speeds then, something fishy is happening
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.
So - in your opinion - any company shipping a USB 2 device is āmaliciousā?
Apple was forced by the EU to stop using their old and worse connector
So theyāre complying, but theyāre purposefully limiting the less expensive phone as a malicious compliance to that
Pretty simple really
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 thatās not āmaliciousā. Itās not even malicious compliance.
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 havenāt used an actual cable in five years so it doesnāt matter that much to me.
You obviously donāt get the point. Educate yourself on Apple and USB-C, please.
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?
Appleās base model hardware usually uses last yearās pro chipsets. Theyāve been doing this for a bit now.
If the trend continues, next year the base model will get all the newer CPUs, micro controllers, etc.
